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Statistics
ءاـصحلئا 3-1 Definitions فيراعت
- Statistics is a branch of Mathematics that deals collecting,
analyzing, summarizing, and presenting data to help in the decision-making process.
- Statistics is applied in all fields of life such as:
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- Industry
- Business
- Education
- Physics
- Chemistry
- Economics
- Biology
- Agriculture
- Psychology
- Astronomy, etc.
- Population is all the members of a group about which we want
to draw a conclusion.
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- All Omani citizens who are currently above 40 years
- All patients treated at a particular hospital in Sohar last year
- The entire daily output of a food factory’s production line
- All students who studied Maths in GFP in 2016 / 2017
- Sample is the part of the population selected for analysis.
Examples on sample are:
- 500 people above 40 years selected from Oman people.
- The patients selected to fill out a patient satisfaction
questionnaire
- 100 boxes of food selected from a factory’s production line
- 50 students selected from all students who studied Maths in
GFP in 2016 / 2017 Examples on population are:
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- Variable is a property of an item or an individual that will be
analyzed using statistics. Examples on variable are:
- Gender (boy or girl)
- Age of students study in Sohar University
- Income in OMR of a hypermarket in Sohar per month
- Number of traffic accidents in Muscat per year