托福（TOEFL）考试阅读模拟试题（8）内容简介
托福（TOEFL）考试阅读模拟试题（8）
Question 21-30
There were two widely divergent influences on the early development of statistical methods. Statistics had a mother who was dedicated to keeping orderly records of governmental unITs (state and statistics come from the same Latin root, status) and a gentlemanly gambling father who relied on mathematics to increase his skill at playing the odds in games of chance. The influence of the mother on the offspring, statistics, is represented by counting, measuring, describing, tabulating, ordering. and the taking of censuses —— all of which led to modern descriptive statistics. From the influence of the father came modern inferential statistics, which is based squarely on theorIEs of probabilITy.
Descriptive statistics involves tabulating, depicting, and describing collections of data. These data may be quantITative, such a
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