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Introduction
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Meaning of statistics
1) STATISTICS MAY BE CALLED THE SCIENCE OF COUNTING 2) STATISTICS MAY RIGHTLY BE CALLED THE SCIENCE OF
AVERAGE 3) STATISTICS MAY BE DEFINED AS THE SCIENCE OF COLLECTION, PRESENTATION , ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF NUMERICAL DATA 4) STATISTICS IS METHOD OF DECISION MAKING IN FACE OF UNCERTAINLY ON THE BASIS OF NUMERICAL DATA AND CALCULATED RISKS. 5) STATISTICS IS THE SCIENCE OF ESTIMATES AND PROBABILITY
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Functions of statistics
a) Comparison. b)Formulation and testing of hypotheses c) Prediction d) Formulation of suitable policies. e) Preciseness and definiteness.
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LIMITATIIONS OF STATISTICS
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Limitation of statistics
1) STATISTICS DOES NOT DEAL WITH INDIVIDUAL
FIGURES. 2) STATISTICS DOES NOT STUDY QUALITATIVE DATA. 3) STATISTICAL LAWS ARE NOT EXACT. 4) STATISTICS CAN BE MISUSED 5) STATISTICAL INTERPRETATIONS REQUIRE A HIGH DEGREE OF SKILL AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE SUBJECT
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CASE : Assume that you have finished your MA in policy studies and have been hired as the environmental affairs officer for the city of Dheradun.
Hypothesis Testing
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We decide the facility is in violation and it is. Then we are fine. We have made a correct decision But sometimes No, make that often were not correct. We make mistakes.
Statistics gives us some rules to reduce the likelihood of making these mistakes
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(Do not be confused by the chemistry. Each bottle of water is a sample to the chemist, while all of the separate bottles of water are the sample to the statistician.)
And we calculate the average amount of the pollutant e.g. lead.
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Hypotheses
The hypothesis is:
Hypothesis? pothesis?