Statistics is a comprehensive science that uses means such as searching, sorting, analyzing, and describing data to infer the nature of the measured object and even predict the future of the object.

This major cultivates systematic theoretical knowledge and application skills of statistics, masters the main methods of statistics and related computer technology, has the ability to deal with data problems in specific industries, and can work in economics, management, finance, Innovative talents engaged in data collection, analysis and decision-making in insurance, business, information technology, education, environment, medicine and other related fields.

Statistics mainly uses a large amount of data to conduct quantitative analysis, summarizes some empirical rules, and makes later inferences and predictions, thereby providing basis and reference for relevant decisions. It is not only statistics, but also includes Investigation, collection, analysis, prediction, etc. have a wide range of applications.

The English statistics of statistics originated from the modern Latin Statisticum Collegium (Congress), Italian Statista (national or politician) and German Statistik. It was first used by Gottfried Achenwall in 1749.

Represents the knowledge of analyzing national data, that is, "the science of studying the country." In the 19th century, statistics explored the meaning of a wide range of data and information and was introduced to the English-speaking world by John Sinclair.

The School of Social Statistics

Arose in the second half of the 19th century. The founder was the German economist and statistician Kniss. The main representatives include Engel, Meyer and others. . They integrated the views of the school of national power and the school of political arithmetic and developed along Kettler's "basic statistical theory", but in terms of the nature of the discipline, they believed that statistics was a social science.

It is a substantive science that studies the causes and regularities of changes in social phenomena, as opposed to the general methods of mathematical statistics. The school of social statistics believes that statistics is the research object rather than individual phenomena. It also believes that due to the complexity and integrity of social phenomena, it is necessary to conduct a large number of observations and analyzes as a whole and study their internal connections in order to reveal the inherent laws of the phenomenon.