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Statistics (mathematical)

Statistics is the applied science of making decisions from data. Virginia Tech's curriculum emphasizes the use of probability modeling to design efficient data collection schemes and to extract the maximum information from resulting data, using state-of-the-art computer software.

Getting started with academic research | Overview of statistics | Recommended databases


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