Science, Maths & Technology
Statistics: What is it or what are they?
...physics’ end in ‘s’, and we don’t talk about one ‘physic’ or one ‘mathematic’. The words ‘mathematics’ and ‘physics’ are singular and refer to fields of study or knowledge. ‘Statistics’ is also a singular word denoting a field of knowledge. The statistician Stephen Senn has defined it as ‘the science of quantitative reasoning’ — of ways...