Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, 4/e

Michael Thorne, Mississippi State University -- Mississippi State
Martin Giesen, Mississippi State University -- Mississippi State

The Language of Statistics

Definitions

statistics	a set of tools concerned with the collection, organization, and analysis of data



indices	summary numbers resulting from the analysis of data



data	numbers; the results of measurement

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