Statistical source:
The word "statistics" comes from the investigation of "the political situation of the polis" in ancient Greece, which is used to collect and sort out the relevant manpower, soil, material resources and financial resources in the territory for the polis managers. As early as 2200 BC, China had the same national investigation report. According to the Book of Songs Yugong, during the Xia and Yu Dynasties, Kyushu was divided into two parts, with a population of13.55 million and a land area of 24.3 million hectares. Statistics, a commonly used word in Chinese today, was coined by Japan during the Meiji Restoration.
The concept of statistics:
It is the definition formed by human's understanding of the quantity of things, and refers to the activities of collecting, sorting, calculating, analyzing, explaining and expressing data related to a certain phenomenon. The word "statistics" originated from the investigation of national conditions, and originally meant the study of national conditions.
The role of statistics:
Statistics refers to the original total or summary calculation of "statistics" in Chinese. The word "statistics" in English comes from Latin status, which refers to the state or condition of various phenomena.
At present, the word statistics has three meanings: statistical data are digital data and related text descriptions that reflect the state and regularity of a large number of phenomena; Statistical work is about collecting, sorting out, analyzing statistical data and making inferences to explore the nature and laws of things; Statistical science is a theory and method to study how to collect, sort out and analyze quantitative data of a large number of phenomena and infer their essence and regularity, such as socio-economic statistics and mathematical statistics.