MIZORAM STATISTICAL DATABASE
DIRECTORATE OF ECONOMICS & STATISTICS
GOVERNMENT OF MIZORAM
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"Only facts count and facts are stubborn"
- Lenin -
"The fundamental aim of Statistics is to give
determinate and adequate knowledge of reality
with the help of numbers and numerical analysis"
- Prof P.C. Mahalanobis -
"Statistics is the study of how information should be
employed to reflect on, and give guidance for action
in a practical situation involving uncertainty"
- V. Barnett -
"Measure, measure, measure.
Measure again and again to find out the
difference and the difference of the difference"
- Galileo -
"Scientific laws are not advanced by the principle
of authority or justified by faith or medieval philosophy;
statistics is the only court of appeal to new knowledge"
- Prof P.C. Mahalanobis -
"All knowledge is, in the final analysis, history.
All sciences are, in the abstract, mathematics.
All methods of acquiring knowledge are essentially through statistics."
- Prof C.R. Rao -
"A time series is a set of statistical observations
arranged in chronological order."
- Morris Hamburg -
"A time series consists of statistical data which are
collected, recorded & observed over successive increments."
- Patterson -
"A time series may be defined as a collection of magnitudes
belonging to different time periods, of some variable or
composite of variables, such as production of steel, per capita income,
gross national product, price of tobacco, or index of industrial production."
- Ya-Lun Chou -
"When quantitative data are arranged in the order of their
occurence, the resulting statistical series is called a time series."
- Wessel & Willett -
"Time series analysis is used to detect patterns of change
in statistical information over regular intervals of time.
We project these patterns to arrive at an estimate for the future."
- Levin & Rubin
Father of Indian Statistics
Prof. P.C. Mahalanobis
(1893-1972)
