CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS OBJECTIVE Students should be able to: 1. Determine the difference between descriptive and inferential statistics. 2. Know the statistical terms. 3. Identify a data type and differentiate between discrete variable and continuous variable. 4. Differentiate between population and sample data 1.0 Introduction Statistics is an important field which has been used widely in research of social science, physics, biology, engineering, medicine and business. Activities involve in Statistics are collecting, organizing, summarizing, presenting and analysing a set of data. Besides that, activities also include drawing valid conclusion and making reasonable decision from the analysed data. Definition of statistics: Statistics is defined as a group of methods: collecting, organizing, presenting, analyzing, and interpreting data in order to make decision. 1.1 Types of Statistics There are two types of statistics, namely: a. descriptive sta...