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Statistics uses mathematics, which itself is the science of relationships between numbers. This would be my best layperson's answer. Good luck!
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Parametric and non-parametric statistics.Another division is descriptive and inferential statistics.Descriptive and Inferential statistics. Descriptive statistics describes a population (e.g. mean, median, variance, standard deviation, percentages). Inferential infers some information about a population (e.g. hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, ANOVA).
Yes. Descriptive statistics are methods of organizing, summarizing, and presenting data in an informative way. Inferential Statistics (also called statistical inference) the methods used to estimate a property of a population on the basis of a sample.