Definition of "statistics" A discipline , principally within applied mathematics , concerned with the systematic study of the collection , presentation , analysis , and interpretation of data . quotations examples
Quotations As for statistics , the foundations include , on any interpretation of which I have ever heard , the foundations of probability , as controversial a subject as one could name . As in other sciences , controversies over the foundations of statistics reflect themselves to some extent in everyday practice , nut not nearly so catastrophically as one might imagine . […] It is hard to judge , however , to what extent the relative calm of modern statistics is due to its domination by a vigorous school relatively well agreed within itself about the foundations .
1972, Leonard J. Savage, The Foundations of Statistics, Dover, page 1
We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years . Yet every branch of contemporary science , from statistics to cosmology , alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience : the millisecond and the nanometer , the eon and the light -year .
2012 January, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 14 November 2012, page 23