Speedstudy Basic Statistics

welcome anywhere math I'm Jeff Jacobsen and today we're going to begin a very interesting topic today we're talking about an introduction to statistics let's get started all right for the introduction to statistics let's first define what exactly statistics is so statistics is the science of collecting organizing analyzing and interpreting data is all about data well first you got to collect data data just doesn't appear you got to collect it somehow maybe you do a survey and get data that way maybe you perform some experiments and you measure and record data as you go along once you have the data well then what do you do with it well we organize it put it in order maybe from least to greatest that's a common thing to do at the start maybe you'll put them in a table maybe you'll make a graph now well then you analyze it what is the data telling us we do things like find the mean median