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"Statistics is a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty"
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"A statistical procedure is not an automatic, mechanical truth-generating machine."
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Statistics is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a scientific, industrial, or social problem, it is conventional to begin with a statistical population or a statistical model to be studied. Populations can be diverse groups of people or objects such as "all people living in a country" or "every at
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