Statistics

1. The collection of techniques to describe data and provide a means of making inferences about a total group, based on a sample of observations from that group.

2. Selected summary information about a sample or a population, for example the mean, mode, median, standard deviation, inter quartile range and skewness.

See also

• Data presentation
• Descriptive statistics
• Index
• Inter quartile range
• Mean
• Median
• Mode
• Sample
• Skewness
• Standard deviation
• Stats