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    Statisticians tackle many types of problems including analyzing internet search data, online advertising, gene sequencing for cancer research, and using sensor data to optimize food shipments. The importance of statistics is that it is used daily for tasks like weather forecasts, medical research, and tracking sales. Statistics produces trustworthy data, analyzes data to make its meaning clear, and draws practical conclusions from data. Statistics is ubiquitous in everyday life and provides a way to obtain correct information from data.

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    Statisticians tackle many types of problems including analyzing internet search data, online advertising, gene sequencing for cancer research, and using sensor data to optimize food shipments. The importance of statistics is that it is used daily for tasks like weather forecasts, medical research, and tracking sales. Statistics produces trustworthy data, analyzes data to make its meaning clear, and draws practical conclusions from data. Statistics is ubiquitous in everyday life and provides a way to obtain correct information from data.

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    Statisticians tackle many types of problems including analyzing internet search data, online advertising, gene sequencing for cancer research, and using sensor data to optimize food shipments. The importance of statistics is that it is used daily for tasks like weather forecasts, medical research, and tracking sales. Statistics produces trustworthy data, analyzes data to make its meaning clear, and draws practical conclusions from data. Statistics is ubiquitous in everyday life and provides a way to obtain correct information from data.

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    INFO-281
    Sep/02/2016
    1. According to the article, what type of problem do statisticians tackle?
    Answer: Many of statisticians tackle many type of problem, such as Internet
    search, online advertising, and Culling gene sequencing information for
    cancer research, analyzing sensor and location data to optimize the handling
    of food shipments.
    2. After reading the article, what do you think the importance of statistics is?
    Answer: People use statistics daily for weather forecasts, predicting disease,
    preparing for emergencies, medical research, political campaigns, tracking
    sales, genetics, insurance, the stock market and quality testing. Statistics can
    produce trustworthy data, and analyzing data to make their meaning clear,
    and last is that drawing practical conclusions from data. Statistics is
    everywhere in our life, and we can use statistics to get the correct
    information.

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