MATHEMATICS AS A

TOOL
Data Management
Mathematics as a tool

Givereasons why Mathematics is a tool?

How can mathematics be a tool in data
management?
 What is Statistics?

 Statistics is a branch of applied mathematics that involves the collection, description,

analysis, and inference of conclusions from quantitative data.

 Statistics is the study and manipulation of data, including ways to gather, review,
analyze, and draw conclusions from data.

 Statistics is the study of the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and

organization of data. In other words, it is a mathematical discipline to collect,
summarize data.
Two branches of Statistics

 Descriptive statistics summarizes  Inferential statistics is a branch of

or describes the characteristics of statistics that makes the use of
various analytical tools to draw
a data set. inferences about the population data
 Descriptive statistics consists of from sample data
three basic categories of measures:
 Inferential statistics uses probability
measures of central tendency,
measures of variability (or
spread), and frequency
distribution.
Data Management

 DATA is a collection of facts, such as numbers, words, measurements, observations

or just descriptions of things.
 Types of Data
1. Qualitative data is descriptive information (it describes something)
2. Quantitative data is numerical information (numbers)
Discrete data can only take certain values (like whole numbers)
Continuous data can take any value (within a range)
Types of Measurement

 Nominal: the data can only be categorized (e.g. gender, ethnicity)

 Ordinal: the data can be categorized and ranked (e.g positions)
 Interval: the data can be categorized, ranked, and evenly spaced (e.g. test scores,
personality inventories, temperature in C or F)
 Ratio: the data can be categorized, ranked, evenly spaced, and has a natural zero.
(Height, Age, Weight)
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