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* The number of animals reportedly used for experimentation in Great Britain increased from several hundred in 1900 to 3.1 million in 1986
* About 40 per cent of all procedures used some form of anaesthesia to alleviate the severity of the interventions
* Genetically modified animals were used in 710,000 regulated procedures representing 26 per cent of all procedures for 2002 (compared with 24 per cent in 2001 and eight per cent in 1995)
* 422 Horses and donkeys, 14,887 sheep, 914,795 mice, and 473,285 rats were used in scientific experiments across the EU in 2002
Statistics 1 and 2: (Source: Home Office Statistics, 2002); Statistics 3 and 4: (Source: Animal Procedures Committee, 2002)
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What are application of statistics in education?
There are many applications of statistics in education. Statistics are used to better prepare students for the real world and testing for example.
Function of statistics?
Statistics refers to the collection, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data. Its functions include presenting facts in simple form, testing hypothesis, facilitates comparison and forecasting.
What is an example of a claim of value?
Animal testing is cruel and morally wrong.
Is Inferential statistics based on probability theory?
Yes; the p value used in hypothesis testing is probability. See the related link.
What are the different divisions of statistics?
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).
