12-11-2013, 03:31 PM
Thanks TS. The title does give clues to my misunderstanding.
I misunderstood when I read title 'theoretical statistics', which to me implies some sort of study to collects and analyzes data, along w/ organizing data. There is a process and structure to ways person collect, analzye, and presents data. The presentation is not 'statistical' but merely raw data that is unanalyzed - it's quite meaningless in statistical terms. More common usage of the term 'statistics' these days is just presenting % but then there is usually explanation around the numbers presented. To do so is inviting so much inferences and whatnot into interpretation. It seems a rather a coy attempt to exaggerate something.
I misunderstood when I read title 'theoretical statistics', which to me implies some sort of study to collects and analyzes data, along w/ organizing data. There is a process and structure to ways person collect, analzye, and presents data. The presentation is not 'statistical' but merely raw data that is unanalyzed - it's quite meaningless in statistical terms. More common usage of the term 'statistics' these days is just presenting % but then there is usually explanation around the numbers presented. To do so is inviting so much inferences and whatnot into interpretation. It seems a rather a coy attempt to exaggerate something.