the study of how to collect, organize, analyze, and interpret 

a small amount of something that gives you information about the thing it was taken from

 to be nominal if the values / observations belonging to it can be assigned a code in the form of a number where the numbers are simply labels

A set of data is said to be ordinal if the values / observations belonging to it can be ranked (put in order) or have a rating scale attached

Data that is divided into ranges and in which the distance between the intervals is meaningful

Relationship between two variables it can sometimes be seen that one of the variables explains, influences, or determines the other

Its counterpart the one that it explains/influences/determines

to put something between other things or parts

 the discipline of quantitatively describing the main features of a collection of data, or the quantitative description itself

the process of drawing conclusions from data that are subject to random variation

a function that represents the distribution of many random variables as a symmetrical bell-shaped graph

a quantity calculated to indicate the extent of deviation for a group as a whole.

a set of points plotted on a horizontal and vertical axes

a mutual relationship or connection between two or more things

a number between -1 and +1 calculated so as to represent the linear dependence of two variables or sets of data

In statistics, the coefficient of determination, denoted R² and pronounced R squared, indicates how well data points fit a line or curve