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Statistics is an empirical science that is concerned with the collection, organisation, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data. The data collection needs to be planned and this may include surveys and experiments. Statistics is widely used by government and industrial organisations, and it is employed for forecasting as well as for presenting trends. They allow the behaviour of a population to be studied and inferences to be made about the population. These inferences may be tested (hypothesis testing) to ensure their validity.
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O’Regan, G. (2013). Probability, Statistics and Software Reliability. In: Mathematics in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4534-9_12
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