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Statistics in Business
What is statistics? Statistics is collecting, measuring, analyzing, and communicating data. There are two types of statistics, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics (Lind, Marchal, & Wathen, 2011). Statistics are applied in different situations. This paper will describe the role statistics has in making business decisions. This paper will also provide examples of situations in which statistics are applied.
Types of Statistics
Lind, Marchal, and Wathen define statistics as “The science of collecting, organizing, presenting, analyzing, and interpreting data to assist in making more effective decisions (Lind, et al., 2011, p. 5). In statistics there