While domain knowledge may have been instrumental in launching SPSS, the same statistics and data analysis methods apply across many knowledge domains.

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Kennesaw State University offers a Master of Science in applied statistics, a minor in applied statistics and data analysis and a SAS certificate in statistical analysis.

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Some use a hybrid of statistics and data analysis offerings.

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Albert Motivans , Chief of the Education Indicators and Data Analysis Section, UNESCO Institute for Statistics, and others.

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There is central co-ordination and analysis of epidemiological statistics linked with laboratory and outcome data.

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The app mashes up Census data with economic statistics from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and Bureau of Labor Statistics and provides the latest economic indicators that drive business hiring, sales, and production decisions throughout the nation in real time.

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According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of Economy Analysis, private-sector pay in right-to-work states grew by 12% over the last decade.

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The software uses an analysis of language, statistics, and call data.

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Some companies use off-the-shelf statistics or highly generalized data on city rankings as a shortcut for the complex analysis needed to accurately prioritize and cluster locations.

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