Statistics is a mathematical science pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and

presentation of data.[1] Statisticians improve the quality of data with the design of experiments and survey sampling.
Statistics also provides tools for prediction and forecasting using data and statistical models. Statistics is applicable
to a wide variety of academic disciplines, including natural and social sciences, government, and business.

Statistical methods can be used to summarize or describe a collection of data; this is called descriptive statistics.
This is useful in research, when communicating the results of experiments. In addition, patterns in the data may be
modeled in a way that accounts for randomness and uncertainty in the observations, and are then used to draw
inferences about the process or population being studied; this is called inferential statistics. Inference is a vital
element of scientific advance, since it provides a prediction (based in data) for where a theory logically leads. To
further prove the guiding theory, these predictions are tested as well, as part of the scientific method. If the inference
holds true, then the descriptive statistics of the new data increase the soundness of that hypothesis. Descriptive
statistics and inferential statistics (a.k.a., predictive statistics) together comprise applied statistics.[2]

There is also a discipline called mathematical statistics, which is concerned with the theoretical basis of the subject.

The word statistics can either be singular or plural.[3] In its singular form, statistics refers to the mathematical
science discussed in this article. In its plural form, statistics is the plural of the word statistic, which refers to a
quantity (such as a mean) calculated from a set of data.[4]

• Descriptive statistics summarize the population data by describing what was observed in the sample
numerically or graphically. Numerical descriptors include mean and standard deviation for continuous data
types (like heights or weights), while frequency and percentage are more useful in terms of describing
categorical data (like race).
• Inferential statistics uses patterns in the sample data to draw inferences about the population represented,
accounting for randomness. These inferences may take the form of: answering yes/no questions about the
data (hypothesis testing) estimating numerical characteristics of the data (estimation), describing
associations within the data (correlation), modeling relationships within the data (regression), extrapolation,
interpolation, or other modeling techniques like ANOVA, time series, and data mining.

Two schools of statistical inference are frequency probability and Bayesian inference.

Statisticians apply their knowledge to production, research, finance, medicine, the built and natural environments,
insurance and government.

• Actuarial science

• Business statistics

• Chemometrics

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 • Demographic statistics

• Economic statistics

• Medical statistics

• Official statistics
• Operations research

• Population ecology
• Psychological statistics

• Quantitative marketing research

• Quantitative psychological research

• Statistical epidemiology
• Statistical finance
• Statistical geography
• Statistical semantics

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• [+] Statistical natural language process

An electronic health record (EHR) refers to an individual patient's medical record in digital
format. Electronic health record systems co-ordinate the storage and retrieval of individual
records with the aid of computers. EHRs are usually accessed on a computer, often over a
network. It may be made up of electronic medical records (EMRs) from many locations and/or
sources. Among the many forms of data often included in EMRs are patient demographics,
medical history, medicine and allergy lists (including immunization status), laboratory test
results, radiology images, billing records and advanced directives.

Kinds of Data
Quantitative: expressed numerically.
Qualitative: expressed in words or pictures.
Descriptive Statistics
Used to transform a set of numbers into indices that describe or characterize the data.
Also known as “summary statistics.”
Used to summarize, organize and reduce large groups of numbers
Measures of Central Tendency
Typical or average score.
* Mean
* Median
* Mode
The Mean
The arithmetical average of all scores.
Symbolize as X or M
The Median
The half­way point in the distribution of scores. 50% of the scores are above and 50% of 
the scores are below the mean.
The Mode
The most commonly occurring score. There may be more than one.
Measures of Variability
Indicators of the spread of the distribution of scores.
Variability
How much on the average the scores differ from the mean

Nominal

Ordinal

Interval

Ratio

People or objects with the same scale value are the same on some attribute.

The values of the scale have no 'numeric' meaning in the way that you usually think about numbers.

People or objects with a higher scale value have more of some attribute.

The intervals between adjacent scale values are indeterminate.

Scale assignment is by the property of "greater than," "equal to," or "less than."

Intervals between adjacent scale values are equal with respect the the attribute being measured.
E.g., the difference between 8 and 9 is the same as the difference between 76 and 77.

There is a rationale zero point for the scale.

Ratios are equivalent, e.g., the ratio of 2 to 1 is the same as the ratio of 8 to 4.

Maximum heart rate (also called STD, or HRmax) is the highest number of times your heart can contract in one
minute, or the heart rate that a person could achieve during maximal physical exertion.

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Health Awareness

Health awareness means being aware of how your body looks and feels and what is normal for you and to notice any
changes.

Who are you - really?

"Know Thyself." Sages throughout time have declared this the key to wealth and happiness. The more you know
your true self, the more you experience health, abundance, fulfillment and joy. It simply makes sense:

• How can you know what to do in life if you do not know who you are?
• How can you understand life, if you do not first understand yourself?
• How can you relate well to others if you do not have an intimate relationship with yourself?

When we don't know who we are, we move through life on auto-pilot. We live by habit, reacting unconsciously to
people and events around us. We generally let others tell us what to do.

When we discover who we really are, we take charge. We live with intention, focus and purpose. We wake up to the
gifts in every moment. We uncover the wealth of creativity, talent and wisdom already inside us.

So how do we discover who we really are?

Through AWARENESS - the key to personal and spiritual growth.

As we become more aware, we see more clearly the choices before us, and claim our power to choose what's best.
We do life - life no longer does us.

Only with awareness do we STOP and pay attention. This allows us to move through blocks, negativity, low self
esteem, sadness, fears, overwhelming emotions and pain.

Only with awareness do we open to our innate inner wisdom - the imagination, creativity, intuition and purpose that
already lie inside us.