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Statistics has two branches, namely, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics (Figure 6-1).
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I have also written about this on my blog: http://thedatascientist.com/election-forecasting/
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Andrew Mercer, Claudia Deane, and Kyley McGeeney, “Why 2016 Election Polls Missed Their Mark,” Pew Research Center, November 9 2016, www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/why-2016-election-polls-missed-their-mark/
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Kampakis, S. (2020). A Short Introduction to Statistics. In: The Decision Maker's Handbook to Data Science. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5494-3_6
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