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Statistics is often described as the science of what?
ACertainty and proof
BFixed natural rules
CPerfect symmetry
DUncertainty and chance
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Uncertainty and chance
Statistics copes with measurement and sampling error and with uncertainty in modelling, so it is called the science of uncertainty.
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