The Subject Matter of Statistics


Modern statistics provides research workers with knowledge, it is a young subject a product of the twentieth century. For scientist, it is a rapidly growing subject with much original materials still not available in texts. It grows as statisticians find answers to more and more of the problems posed by research workers.

When discussing the subject matter of statistics, we have to deal with its properties such as, is statistics a science or an art. Actually statistics is not a science in subject as other natural sciences such as Physics, Chemistry or Biology, it is a scientific method in its true form. Strictly speaking statistics is the science, pure and applied of creating, developing, and applying techniques such that the uncertainty of inductive inferences may be evaluated.

This explains to us the subject matter of statistics thus we can say that statistics is both a science as well as an art. It is a science in the sense that it is a pure scientific methods of doing research to learn about problems which contains uncertainty. It is an art in the sense that it is a technique used for solving problems such as descriptive statistics. Generally to most scientists, statistics is logic, or common sense (pure Science) with a strong mixture of arithmetic procedures. The logic supplies the methods by which data are to be collected and determines how extensive they are to be, the arithmetic together with certain numerical tables, yields the material on which to base the inference and measure its uncertainty.

The statistical method such as applied statistics deals with the application or use of the various statistical methods, including rules, principles and formulae in handing data relating to problems, in specialized fields.
To conclude the discussion of the subject matter of statistics, it is stated that statistics is both a science as well as an art. It is a science in-so-far as its methods are basically concerned and systematic and has a general application. It is an art in-so-far as the successful application of these statistical methods depends to a considerable degree on the skill and special experience of different statisticians, and the knowledge of the field of application, such as in economics, business, population etc., possessed by different statisticians.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Essay - The Profession I Like Most

Choosing a profession is not an easy thing. So many kinds of attractive professions present themselves before us, but it is very important to remember that we can be a success only in that profession in which we are interested. If I were asked what profession I am interested in, I would at once say teaching. I would like to be a Professor. To be a professor or a teacher is to follow a noble calling. Teachers and professors play an important role in the life of a nation. Because they train the growing generation, who will be the future citizens of the country. I would like to be a professor in a college. In the life of a teacher or a professor you are always in the company of youth. You grow older but your companions are always young. The young people whom you teach are your companions and they make you feel always young. Next you are always in the company of books. Perhaps in no other profession you remain in so much in touch with books as in profession of teaching. In fac
Read more

Essay on Teaching as the Noble Profession

There are many professions which man has adopted according to his knowledge and ability. A person can adopt any profession or business. It depends upon his aptitudes and mental capability. All profession are equally important for the human development. But the teaching is the profession which has lead people on the high way of progress and prosperity. No development had been possible if there had been no teacher. All the sciences all the arts and crafts and all the civilizations and cultures are due to the teaching. In fact teaching is the noble profession let me call the teaching as prophetic profession, because invariably all prophets are teachers. They taught and preached the message of God.  The importance and nobility of this profession is evident from a tradition of Holy Prophet (Peace by upon Him) in which he says “I have been sent to you as a teacher” in an other Hadith Holy Prophet (Peace by upon Him) says “He who is neither teacher nor student is not a Muslim” these
Read more

Nothing is Impossible in the World (Essay)

When we takes up many things in hand and fail in the most of them we bewail our lot and try to console by saying that we were fated to achieve this and fail in that. But fate is a figment of man’s imagination, it is refuge only for those who are cowardly and lack in determination. Because nothing is impossible in the world. Man is architect of his own fate. He can make himself if he has the will. He can also mar himself if he wavers and submits to opposing forces. A man of determination never fails. His unshaken determination coupled with this unflinching endeavour carries him to the goal and makes him thoroughly successful man. But a man who trembles of every step and has no confidence in himself, can never reach the goal and dies an inglorious death. Robert Bruce could never have regained his mother land from clutches of the enemy if he submitted to the so called fate and gave up the attempts. If Mahmood Ghaznavi has lost the hope, he could not have conquered the Somnath temple
Read more