India’s statistics exploration started with anthropological experiment. Without the use of statistics, business and economics cannot make proper planning and policy. Performance measurement in education, including IQ, is a statistical construct. Use of statistics in psychological behaviour is known as psychometry. Examination of climate change and environmental studies are effectively statistical data analysis of weather and environment.
One of the simple applications of statistics is to estimate the number of fish in a pond, using random sampling and suitable statistical (hypergeometric) distribution. Does the data support genetic theories of inherited characteristics? What is the pattern of rainfall? What are the important risk factors for heart disease? Any marketing strategy is based on some statistical sample study.