ABSTRACT
Statistics provides techniques for analyzing and making decisions within the uncertainty. It may be a mechanical spring-and-weight response to treatment by the ambient temperature. Treatments and outcomes are variously termed influences and responses, causes and effects, inputs and outputs, independent and dependent variables, etc. Descriptive statistics are used for describing and summarizing experimental, production, reliability, and other types of data. In statistics the term stationary means that the steady-state process will not deterministically flatline. Traditionally, statistics deals with the probable outcomes from a distribution. Statistical statements should be tempered with a declaration related to probability (likelihood, or confidence). Statements about something should only relate to the test data, not an interpretation or extrapolated action.
