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The systematic analysis of random phenomena. Primarily, it is the application of probability theory to specific data, but includes special techniques and principles not subsumed under probability. Statistics is concerned with collecting and processing data, summarizing information, estimating descriptive constants (parameters), discovering empirical laws, testing hypotheses, and designing experiments in such a way that valid inferences can be drawn from empirical evidence.
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| statistic |
An estimate based on a sample or samples of a population, providing an indication of the true population parameter.
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| statistic |
A computed quantity characteristic of a population, such as the mean.
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| statistics |
Measurements of attributes of a sample from a population. See parameters.
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| statistical significance |
The likelihood that an association between exposure and disease risk could have occurred by chance alone.
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