def¹: tools to understand data (KhanAcademy).
def²: the science of developing and studying methods for: - collecting - analyzing - interpreting - presenting empirical data (UCI Department of Statistics).
types (KhanAcademy):
-
descriptive
-
inferential
-
descriptive: describe large number dataset with a smaller set of numbers
-
inferential: predict behavior of dataset by determining behavior of a random sample from it.
- KhanAcademy.https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-sixth-grade-math/cc-6th-data-statistics/mean-and-median/v/statistics-intro-mean-median-and-mode.
- KhanAcademy.https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-sixth-grade-math/cc-6th-data-statistics/mean-and-median/a/calculating-the-mean.
- UCI Department of Statistics - Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences. https://www.stat.uci.edu/what-is-statistics/.
Q: Question for later research
Disclaimer: This is an ongoing and incomplete project to unpack these concepts and serve as my distributed memory.