The document provides an introduction to statistics, including definitions of key concepts. It describes statistics as the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. Descriptive statistics describes characteristics of a data set, while inferential statistics is used to draw inferences about a population based on a sample. Key terms are also defined, such as population, sample, parameter, statistic, variable, and scale of measurement. Summation notation is introduced as a way to write expressions involving sums.