Is it too simplistic to say that statistics is basically counting, comparing, predicting, and reporting? Statistics is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data. Statistics deals with every aspect of data, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments. When census data cannot be collected, statisticians collect data by developing specific experiment designs and survey samples. I quote from foundations of statistics " It is unanimously agreed that statistics depends somehow on probability. But, as to what probability is and how it is connected with statistics, there has seldom been such complete disagreement and breakdown of communication since the Tower of Babel." Doubtless, much of the disagreement is merely terminological and would disappear under sufficiently sharp analysis. The difference between descriptive and inferential statistics. The primary difference between descriptive and inferential statistics is that descriptive statistics measure for definitive measurement while inferential statistics note the margin of error of research performed.

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