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“Pure mathematics is,
in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.”
Albert Einstein
"Statistics
is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and
interpretation of
data. It
deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data
collection in terms of the design of
surveys and
experiments. A
statistician is someone who is particularly well versed in the ways
of thinking necessary for the successful application of statistical
analysis. Such people have often gained this experience through working
in any of a
wide number of fields. There is also a discipline called
mathematical statistics that studies statistics mathematically.
The word statistics, when referring to the scientific discipline,
is singular, as in "Statistics is an art." This should not be confused
with the word statistic, referring to a quantity (such as
mean or
median)
calculated from a set of data, whose plural is statistics ("this
statistic seems wrong" or "these statistics are misleading")."
Source:
Wikipedia
"