Introduction to Statistics
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Transcript of Introduction to Statistics
Asha SharmaFaculty: Mgt.
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When you can measure what you are speaking about and express in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind”.
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Statistics does not deal with individual figures
Statistics does not study qualitative data.
Statistical laws are not exact. Statistics can be misused.(the figures don’t lie, but the liars can figure)
It require a high degree of skill and understanding of the subject.PCTE Group of Institutes