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Statistics = the practice of collecting and analyzing numerical data in large quantities, especially for the purpose of inferring proportions in a whole from those in a representative sample
Celebrations
October 20 is World Statistics Day
unstats.un.org/unsd/wsd
Elsewhere on the Web
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Elsewhere
http://www.correlated.org
http://www.tylervigen.com
Tourism and Travel
http://www.lvcva.com/press/statistics-facts/index.jsp
http://statistics.unwto.org
Quotes
Some individuals use statistics as a drunk man uses lampposts-for support rather than for illumination.
– A.E. Housman (http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/15/stats-drunk)
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
– Albert Einstein
Wikipedia
Lies, damned lies, and statistics
Statistics
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