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INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The first contains two censuses of the population of Israel and
        The second describes the material well-being of the various Jewish tribes.
    - - The Roman Empire was the first government to collect a large amount of data on the population, area, and income of all the territories under its control.
        
        The Carolingian kings Pepin the Short and Charlemagne ordered detailed studies of the properties of the Church in 758 and 762 respectively.
        
        After the Norman conquest of England in 1066, King William I of England commissioned a census. The information obtained with this census, carried out in 1086, is collected in the Domesday Book. Birth and death registration began in England in the early 16th century, and the first notable statistical study of population appeared in 1662, titled Observations on the London Bills of Mortality.
        
        In the 19th century, with the generalization of the scientific method to study all phenomena in the natural and social sciences, researchers accepted the need to reduce information to numerical values to avoid ambiguity in verbal descriptions.
- - - - There are many sociological or economic predictions that can be made from the exclusive application of probabilistic reasoning to objective data sets such as those of a demographic nature.
        
        Statistical predictions hardly refer to specific events, but they describe with considerable precision the global behavior of large sets of particular events. They are predictions that, in general, are not usually useful.