Statistics

Statistics and probability theory are closely related. Statistics can never prove things, only disprove them by ruling out hypotheses.
Distinguish between model-independent statistics (this class, e.g. mean, median, mode) and model-dependent statistics (next class, e.g. least-squares fitting).
Will make use of special functions (e.g. gamma function) described in NRiC, Chapter 6.

Statistics and probability theory are closely related. Statistics can never prove things, only disprove them by ruling out hypotheses.