Sunday, July 15, 2007

The Penetration of Statistics in Society

Statistics are such an integral part of modern lives that sometimes it isn't realized. The prediction of the winner of a presidential race or the local mayoral contest depends upon inferential statistics, one of the two main branches of statistics. The other branch of statistics is that of descriptive statistics. This is how to determine which baseball player in the American League had the best batting average in a single season.
The information which is available on the internet today probably exceeds that of any other time in history. Research is possible and for those who enjoy sports or for whom sports betting are a recreational activity, they certainly use statistics in arriving at decisions as to which team to back or which horse to bet on.
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