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]Once there were two mice. They were friends. One mouse lived in the country; the other mouse lived in the city. After many years the Country mouse saw the City mouse; he said,“Do come and see me at my house in the country.”So the City mouse went. The City mouse said,“This food is not good, and your house is not good. Why do you live in a hole in the field You should come and live in the city. You would live in a nice house made of stone. You would have nice food to eat. You must come and see me at my house in the city.”
The Country mouse went to the house of the City mouse. It was a very good house. Nice food was set ready for them to eat. But just as they began to eat they heard a great noise. The City mouse cried,“Run! Run! The cat is coming!”They ran away quickly and hid. After some time they came out. When they came out, the Country mouse said,“I do not like living in the city. I like living in my hole in the field. For it is nicer to be poor and happy, than to be ri A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesn’t say. 我来回答: 提交
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