What is meant by statistics. give some characteristics and advantages of it.

Statistics is a branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data.Some of the important characteristics of statistics are :

It consists of aggregates of facts, It should be numerically expressed , It must be enumerated or estimated accurately , It should be collected in a systematic manner etc.

The main advantages of statistics are:

they are familiar to library staff and managers

they can be analysed relatively quickly

information is collected in a standardised way

they are usually straightforward to analyse

they overcome the difficulties of encouraging participation by users

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