Вивчаючи статистику

Practice the pronunciation of the words:

Procedure, analyse, quantitative, statistician, scientific, approach, recipient, phenomenon, occurrence, confusion, technique, area, inference, hypothesis, coherently.

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   Look through the text and find the explanation of the following words:
   

Statistics Data Sample Inference Hypothesis

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   Memorize the following words and word combinations. Use them in the sentences. Pay attention to the prepositions.
   

obtain
refer to
branch
be concerned with
be familiar with
gather
draw a conclusion

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   Read and translate the following sentences:
   

1. He obtained a law degree from the University of California. 2. This information is easily obtainable on the Internet. 3. Please refer to your owner's manual for more information. 4. Neurology is a branch of medicine. 5. It’s a bank with branches all over the country. 6. I am very concerned that class sizes seem to be growing. 7. People are becoming more concerned about what they eat. 8. It's nice to see a few familiar faces around here. 9. This street doesn't look familiar to me. 10. Anyone who's familiar with his poetry will find the course easy. 11. He doesn't like to be too familiar with his staff. 11. Crowds of fans gathered at the stadium for the big match. 12. She gathered her things together and left. 12. I've come to the conclusion that we'll have to sell the car. 13. In conclusion, I would like to thank our guest speaker. 14. You shouldn't jump to conclusions just because they were holding hands.

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   Read and translate the text:
   

What is statistics?
Put simply, statistics is a range of procedures for gathering, organising, analysing and presenting quantitative data. ‘Data’ is the term for facts that have been obtained and subsequently recorded, and, for statisticians, ‘data’ usually refers to quantitative data that are numbers. Essentially therefore, statistics is a scientific approach to analyzing numerical data in order to enable us to maximise our interpretation, understanding and use. This means that statistics helps us turn data into information; that is, data that have been interpreted, understood and are useful to the recipient. Put formally, for your project, statistics is the systematic collection and analysis of numerical data, in order to investigate or discover relationships among phenomena so as to explain, predict and control their occurrence. The possibility of confusion comes from the fact that not only is statistics the techniques used on quantitative data, but the same word is also used to refer to the numerical results from statistical analysis.
In very broad terms, statistics can be divided into two branches – descriptive and inferential statistics.