Meanings of statistics

Meanings of statistics
1-1 Introduction
There are many meanings used to define the statistics. Where in the past, it was mean counting the numbers of the newborn and the dead people or the data of state of weather, temperatures, wind velocity, .etc. While, in now a days it means presenting data in tables or graphs then :


Meaning of Statistics
The term statistics mean that the numerical statement as well as statistical methodology. When it is used in the sense of statistical data it refers to quantitative aspects of things and is a numerical description.
Example: Income of family, production of automobile industry, sales of cars etc. These quantities are numerical. But there are some quantities, which are not in themselves numerical but can be made so by counting. The sex of a baby is not a number, but by counting the number of boys, we can associate a numerical description to sex of all newborn babies, for an example, when saying that 60% of all live-born babies are boy. This information then comes within the realm of statistics.