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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
statistics science of collecting and classifying a group of facts according to their relative number and determining certain values that represent characteristics of the group. The most familiar statistical measure is the arithmetic mean , which is an average value for a group of numerical observations. A second important statistic or statistical measure is the standard deviation, which is a measure of how much the individual observations are scattered about the mean. The chi-square test is a method of determining the odds for or against a given deviation from expected statistical... Read more
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Genetics Statistics Statistics is the set of mathematical tools and techniques that are used to analyze...expressing the certainty with which a treatment can be said to be effective. Statistics is a relatively new science, with most of the important developments... Read more
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The Oxford Companion to World War II statistics. Accurate historical statistics are notoriously difficult to procure even under the most propitious...they generated, greater efforts were made to provide accurate statistics in areas vital to the war effort. But wartime dislocation and... Read more

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