Psych Stat

• Statistics


  A branch of mathematics taking and transforming numbers into useful information for decision makers
• Statistics


  • Methods for processing & analysing numbers
  • Methods for helping reduce the uncertainty inherent in decision making
• Statistics is the science that deals with the collection, organization, presentation, analysis and interpretation of data to come up with meaningful numerical observations of almost any kind
• Statistical data


  • Figures on important information's on tax return, populations, birth, deaths, trade and others that are considered important information to the state
• Statistics plays an important role in gathering information that are observable or measurable on each and every individual or entity of the study
• The information that will be gathered is based on the characteristics with which units of measurement of interest are being described or with which inferences are made
• Two Major Areas of Statistics


  • Descriptive Statistics
  • Inferential Statistics