Stephanie Pacheco
The word statistics is derived from the Latin word status, which means: “state”
(Larson & Farber, 2012). However what does statistics exactly mean? Statistics is the
science from learning from data, where you measure, control or communicate uncertainty
(“What is statistics?,” ). Data is consisted of information and details that is coming from
certain observations, measurements or responses (Larson & Farber, 2012). According to
the textbook, statistics is defined as the science of collecting, organizing, analyzing, and
interpreting data in order to have decisions made (Larson & Farber, 2012). Nonetheless,
there is also just the term statistic used and it’s basically a numerical description of a
