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- Statistics Numerical, graphical, and tabular
methods for organizing and summarizing data.
- Statistics Methods of generalizing from a sample to
the population from which the sample was selected.
- Use known facts about the population to conjecture
what might occur in a sample and how likely it is.
Jan Lethen
Wed Nov 13 16:20:46 CST 1996