https://github.com/praisetompane/statistics
An attempt at unpacking statistics and its foundations in layman's terms.
https://github.com/praisetompane/statistics
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An attempt at unpacking statistics and its foundations in layman's terms.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/praisetompane/statistics
- Owner: praisetompane
- License: mit
- Created: 2023-05-09T06:55:03.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-04-10T09:06:15.000Z (27 days ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-10T09:26:54.797Z (27 days ago)
- Topics: statistics
- Language: Python
- Homepage:
- Size: 652 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# What is Statistics?
## Objectives
- An attempt at unpacking statistics and its foundations in layman's terms.
## Definitions
- def statistics¹: tools to understand data (KhanAcademy).
- def statistics²: the science of developing and studying methods for *collecting*, *analyzing*, *interpreting* and *presenting* empirical data (UCI Department of Statistics).
- statistics types (KhanAcademy):
- def descriptive: describe large number dataset with a smaller set of numbers
- def inferential: predict behavior of dataset by determining behavior of a random sample from it.
## Dependencies
- [Docker](https://docs.docker.com/get-started/)
## Setup Instructions
- The repository is configured to use [devcontainers](https://containers.dev) for development.
- [Developing inside a Container](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/containers)
## History
## Notation
## Tools
## State of the art
## Community
## Statisticians
## Testing
- ### Execute Tests
```shell
pytest
```
## Spell Check
```shell
pyspelling -c spellcheck.yaml
```
# References
- UCI Department of Statistics - Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences. https://www.stat.uci.edu/what-is-statistics/.
## Legend
**Q**: Question for later research
**MYINC**: My Insight/Conjecture [Could Be Unoriginal/False and Likely Is]
**Disclaimer**: This is an ongoing and incomplete project to unpack these concepts and serves as my distributed memory.