# Introductory Statistics

- By: Shafer and Zhang
- Source: [LibreTexts](https://stats.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Introductory_Statistics/Introductory_Statistics_(Shafer_and_Zhang))
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/)
- Read at LibreTexts: https://stats.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Introductory_Statistics/Introductory_Statistics_(Shafer_and_Zhang)
- PDF: https://downloads.libretexts.org/api/v1/download/stats-653/pdf

Statistics is the study of the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and organization of data. In applying statistics to, e.g., a scientific, industrial, or societal problem, it is conventional to begin with a statistical population or a statistical model process to be studied.