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Considering the current events, how relative do you think statistics are in the current COVID-19 pandemic? How do you see the role of statistics in the current public health COVID-19 pandemic response?
Statistics is the scientific application of mathematical principles to the collection, analysis, and presentation of numerical data.
Functions :-
1) Statistics helps in providing a better understanding and exact description of a phenomenon of nature.
(2) Statistics helps in the proper and efficient planning of a statistical inquiry in any field of study.
(3) Statistics helps in collecting appropriate quantitative data.
(4) Statistics helps in presenting complex data in a suitable tabular, diagrammatic and graphic form for easy and clear comprehension of the data.
(5) Statistics helps in understanding the nature and pattern of variability of a phenomenon through quantitative obersevations.
(6) Statistics helps in drawing valid inferences, along with a measure of their reliability about the population parameters from the sample data.
In the present scenario , statistics is playing a very essential role more than what it does than usual in helping the government to rule out the preventive measures , making protocols , policies to be worked out among the public in relation to the basic needs and functionality such as school, hospital ,travel etc .
Stats gives the information about how many population is affected , how many will be affected , comparison among states , countries etc . It's a vital parameter on which the scientists are continuously relying to rule out the results and the cause of this pandemic .