How can statistics be applied to real life?
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Look up the 80/20 rule.  That is one statistic that is used all the time in many different ways.\n\nStatistics can be invaluable in business.  They can tell you what the average customer is like and what marketing strategies best appeal to them.\n\nYou can also use it to rate a business unit's performance.  For example, 95% of our help desk's calls are answered within 5 minutes and resolved within 8 minutes, with less than 2% of those calls having to be reopened.  Or the average sales associate sells 12 products per day with an average sales revenue of $589 (and then employees who go far over this average may be rewarded and those wo go far below the average may be let go).\n\nOr, if I was a guy who was single and dating, I might determine that 85% of girls will give me their number if I try a certain type of pick up on them.  I might determine that 12% will slap me in the ace if I try a second kind of pickup.  ect...
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I'm good at statistics.  Why do you ask?
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You can't apply statistics (to anything) unless you have a sufficient number of values to work with.  For example, if you took a poll of who people were going to vote for, if you only asked 5 people, you might not get an accurate representation - but if you ask 5000 then the margin of error gets smaller.  With molecules, there are millions of them.
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in order to do statistics you need data\n\nie.  we need number to do this
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Here are some statistics:
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Statistics is applicable in every field of science which involves the data analysis.\nIf You wanna know the reliability of a medicine to patient, statistics can predict the results in some level of confidence.\nThe pills and medicines to stop pregnancy is tested in this way.
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try your national statistics office
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variation. variation is every where. statistics is also important in business, nursing, ect. it gives you the tools to analyze the data collected and to know what the variation is telling you. there is a book called lady tasting tea and gives you info on the great statistician of the 20th century and the influence they had on the world. easy read story format.
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Statistics is the collection, processing, interpretation and presentation of numerical information. Emmanuel Parzen of Texas A & M has said, "Statistics is like art. It's all about compression." What he meant was that, like an artist who tries to embody her perception of the world onto a finite canvas, a statistician tries to compress her perception of the world into a finite set of explanatory factors. At its very center, statistics is a ever-growing set of quantitative methods that examine past behavior to predict future behavior. \n\nThe application of statistics allows statisticians to: \n\nFormulate questions to be answered by collecting data \nSpecify by what design the data are to be collected \nSummarize the information in the data as statistics \nAnalyze statistics to draw and present conclusions \nBiostatistics is a branch of statistics that applies its methods for research in biology, medicine, and public health. The intent of biostatistics is to better understand the factors that affect human health through the judicious use of statistical methods. \nBecause many factors affect human health, statistical research in various fields is often termed as biostatistics. These fields include: \n\npharmacology \nbiology \nbiotechnology \ngenetics \nmedicine \nbiometry \ndentistry \npsychiatry \nphysiology \nradiology / medical imaging \ncancer \nAIDS \npublic health \nepidemiology \nhealth status of populations assessment \nenvironmental health \nmedical decision making \nnutrition \nhealth policy assessment \nhealth services research \nhealth behavior intervention assessment \nFields that either encompass or share concepts with biostatistics are statistics, medical informatics, epidemiology, operations research, and medicine.
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Used to set insurance premiums, the probability of getting into accidents based on your car type/age\n\nFor evaluating worker performance, ie you're on time 95% of the time or only 80%\n\nHow can you actually tell when two sets of data are different? Need statistics.\n\n A lot of jobs in stats!!
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Statistics and probability aren't used to predict what future events will occur.  Based on simulation (e.g. throwing dice), statisticians can assign likelihood estimates to events.  In no way does probability estimate what event will come next.  We'll leave that to professional gamblers.  Probability is concerned with what happens in the "long run." \n\nYou say all things have a 50/50 chance of occurring - do you win the lottery every other time you play?  Do you get in a car accident every other time you drive?  You should re-think your 50/50 reasoning.\n\nStatistics isn't just probability - statisticians design studies, run clinical trials, program computers, ensure quality in industrial processes, and many other valuable tasks.
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I couldn't find anything on real time statistics, which is understandable since criminal records,property records, and other public records take time to record. i did however find one interesting website for you. \n\nhttp://www.statistics.gov.uk/ -National Statistics Online
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You can expect mind numblingly boring calculations for most of your summer.  The mathematics behind statistics is fairly elementary, it's the staying awake and alert part that's difficult...\nGood Luck, I had to take Statistics in college, and I have to say... It was the best one hour nap 3 times a week a person could possibly ask for...
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Try a histogram and use a range of temperatures.
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Statics?  Statistics?
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What kind of statistic are you looking for?
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The standard deviation tells you how far away something is from the average.  You can do a standard deviation on any set of data, however most people are familiar with the Normal Distribution.