Introduction


Statistical data collection is concerned with the planning of studies, especially with the design of randomized experiments & with the planning of surveys using random sampling. The initial analysis of the data often follows the inspect protocol sent prior to the analyse being conducted. The data from a study can also be analyzed to consider secondary hypotheses inspired by the initial results, or tonew studies. A secondary analysis of the data from a noted study uses tools from data analysis, and the process of doing this is mathematical statistics.

Data analysis is dual-lane into:

While the tools of data analysis develope best on data from randomized studies, they are also applied to other kinds of data. For example, from natural experiments and observational studies, in which issue the inference is dependent on the framework chosen by the statistician, and so subjective.