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Statistical Methods in Scientific Research

Suresh Kumar Sharma

2.1Descriptive Statistics

Statistics is a field of science concerned with the collection, compilation, summarization, analysis of data and then drawing valid inferences about the body of data when only a part of the data is observed. Statistical tools are employed in many fields—education, business, biology, medicine, psychology, agriculture, economics, just to mention a few. When the data to be analyzed are derived from biological sciences and medicine, we use the term biostatistics to distinguish this particular application of statistical ...

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