COMM 291 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mnemonic, Confounding, Pareto Chart
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Commerce 291 lecture notes jonathan berkowitz (copyright, 2014) The word statistics comes from the latin word for the state , because the first data collection was for the purposes of the state tax collection and military service. Birth and mortality rates appeared in england in the 17th century, about the same time that french mathematicians were laying the groundwork for probability by studying gambling problems. Applications to studies of heredity, agriculture and psychology were developed by the great english scientists, galton, pearson, and fisher, who gave us many of techniques we use today. With such a diversity of origin, it is not surprising that the word statistics means different things to different people. Here are two concise definitions of statistics : statistics involves the collection, summarization, presentation and interpretation of numerical facts, and the generalization of these facts, statistics is decision-making in the face of uncertainty.
