统计学是处理数据收集，分析，解释和表示的学科。它可以应用于从生物学，化学和人类学到地理，政治学和社会学的广泛学术领域。因为统计被用作逻辑上明智的决策的基础，所以统计已在社会的公共和私人，营利和非营利部门中得到广泛应用。
Statistics is the discipline that deals with the collection, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data. It can be applied to a wide array of academic areas, from biology, chemistry and anthropology to geography, political science and sociology. Because it is used as a basis for logical, informed decisions, statistics has wide application in the public and private, profit and nonprofit sectors of society.