What Are Analytics and Statistics?

Statistics play an important role in analytics—one cannot exist without the other. Analytics is extracting information out of data, and statistics is the study of the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and organization of data. We generate statistics from data, and we then use statistics to create analysis.

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