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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/122186| Title: | What is statistics? An intro for the uninitiated! |
| Other Titles: | The research road we make : statistics for the uninitiated |
| Authors: | Formosa, Saviour Azzopardi, Jacqueline Formosa Pace, Janice Scicluna, Sandra |
| Keywords: | Statistics -- Malta Research -- Data processing Research -- Management |
| Issue Date: | 2011 |
| Publisher: | National Statistics Office |
| Citation: | Formosa, S., Azzopardi, J., Formosa Pace, J., Scicluna, S. (2011). What is statistics? An Intro for the uninitiated!. In S. Formosa, S. Scicluna, J. Azzopardi, J. Formosa Pace, T. Calafato, (Eds.), The research road we make : statistics for the uninitiated (pp. 1-5). Valletta: National Statistics Office |
| Abstract: | Up to a few years ago, access to data was something nearing the impossible. Official statistics was available in state and national libraries while research outputs were only available in hard-to-find expensive books, mostly out of reach from most young researchers’ pockets. Three relatively recent upheavals changed it all! I) The advent of Personal Computers in the 1980s II) The launching of the internet and the worldwide web in the 1990s III) The availability of raw real-time data in the 2000s. From an era of hoarding and dearth of data we now live in a reality where the problem lies with unravelling the most-relevant dataset required for one’s study. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/122186 |
| ISBN: | 9789995729141 |
| Appears in Collections: | The research road we make : statistics for the uninitiated |
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