Statistics
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Statistics is a branch of applied mathematics that deals with collecting, organizing, analyzing, reading and presenting data.[1][2][3] Descriptive statistics make summaries of data.[4][5] Inferential statistics makes predictions.[6] Statistics helps in the study of many other fields, such as science, medicine,[7] economics,[8][9] psychology,[10] politics[11] and marketing.[12] Someone who works in statistics is called a statistician. In addition to being the name of a field of study, the word "statistics" can also mean numbers that are used to describe data or relationships.