There were two widely divergent
influences on the early development of statistical methods. Statistics had a
mother who was dedicated to keeping orderly records of governmental units (state
and statistics come from the same Latin root, status) and a gentlemanly gambling
father who relied on mathematics to increase his skill at playing the odds in
games of chance. The influence of the mother on the offspring, statistics, is
represented by counting, measuring, describing, tabulating, .ordering, and the
taking of censuses - all of which led to modern descriptive statistics. From the
influence of the father came modern inferential statistics, which is based
squarely on theories of probability. Descriptive statistics involves tabulating, depicting, and describing collections of data. These data may be either quantitative, such as mea A. It leads to increased variability. B. It solves all numerical problems. C. It simplifies unwieldy masses of data. D. It changes qualitative variables to quantitative variables. [单项选择]According to the passage, when stamps were used the postage would be ______ that in the early 19th century.
[单项选择]Passage 1
There were two widely divergent influences on the early development of statistical methods. Statistics had a mother who was dedicated to keeping orderly records of governmental units (state and statistics come from the same Latin root, status) and a gentlemanly gambling father who relied on mathematics to increase his skill at playing the odds in games of chance. The influence of the mother on the offspring, statistics, is represented by counting, measuring, describing, tabulating, ordering, and the taking of censuses-- all of which led to modern descriptive statistics. From the influence of the father came modem inferential statistics, which is based squarely on theories of probability.
Descriptive statistics involves tabulating, depicting, and describing collections of data. These data may be either quantitative, such as measures of height, intelligence, or grade level -- variables that are characterized by an underlying continuum -- or the data may represent
A. Descriptive statistics B. Unknown variables C. Qualitative changes D. Inferential statistics [单项选择]Passage 2
[填空题]According to the passage, ______were the first to use ice for practical propose.
[单项选择] Passage Three
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