STATISTICS

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When the information was collected by the investigator herself or himself with a definite objective in her or his mind, the data obtained is called .

In the second case, when the information was gathered from a source which already had the information stored, the data obtained is called .

Facts or figures, collected with a definite purpose, are called .

is the area of study dealing with the presentation, analysis and interpretation of data.

A bar graph is a of data in which usually bars of uniform width are drawn with equal spacing between them on one axis (say, the x-axis), depicting the variable.

is a graphical representation of a grouped frequency distribution with continuous classes.

The of a number of observations is the sum of the values of all the observations divided by the total number of observations.

The is that value of the observation which occurs most frequently.

is the value of the middle-most observation.