Justify these two uses of statistics with real life examples (i)to inform general public (ii)to explain things that have happened
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Statistical knowledge allows you to use the best methodology for gathering evidence, making the right measurements and displaying the findings effectively. Statistics is a critical process behind how we make scientific discoveries, make data-based decisions and predict.
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To Inform General Public:
- Statistics that is published by govt agencies or other govt institutions, such as international organisations, as a public benefit are known as official statistics. They have quantitative or qualitative data on all core aspects of the lives of people such as cultural, social, living-conditions, public health, education and the environment.
- Official statistics provide data & images such as maps & graph to provide a picture of a nation or different phenomena. Statistics cover various fields ( demographic, economic, social, and so on). This offers basic knowledge, keep users informed, appraisal & evaluation at different stages, & assist good policy & decision-making.
- Examples of official statistics is population statistics, trade indicators, GDP of the economy, Gender pay gap, infant mortality
(ii) To explain things that have happened
- Statistics convey to us any trends as to what had happened/took place in the past and it is useful in forecasting what can happen/take place in the future. For example, weather forecaster speaks about weather models using using statistics which compare prior weather conditions with present weather to forecast the future weather
- The other use of statistics are in predicting election outcome, quality testing, stock market analysis, in medical studies to show the effectiveness rate of a drug, emergency/disaster management, predicting diseases, among others
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