{"title":"Statistics and data: what do numbers have to do with trees?","authors":"A. Kozak, R. Kozak, C. Staudhammer, S. B. Watts","doi":"10.1079/9781845932756.0001","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract\n This chapter defines the term statistics, which is generally subdivided into two distinct fields: descriptive statistics and statistical inference. The chapter also discusses data, the building blocks of statistics; and introduces data collection procedures and measurement scales applied in forest trees.","PeriodicalId":413890,"journal":{"name":"Introductory probability and statistics: applications for forestry and natural sciences","volume":"326 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Introductory probability and statistics: applications for forestry and natural sciences","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1079/9781845932756.0001","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This chapter defines the term statistics, which is generally subdivided into two distinct fields: descriptive statistics and statistical inference. The chapter also discusses data, the building blocks of statistics; and introduces data collection procedures and measurement scales applied in forest trees.