Finally, then, Figure 11.9 Summary of the overall statistical process expands on Figure 11.1 Extended diagram of the statistics process and gives a view of the overall statistics process.

If you can grasp these overall steps, a lot of the smaller detail when learning given statistical methods will make a lot more sense to you! You will literally see the same global process all throughout the world of statistics:

data→ fitting patterns → interpreting patterns through the summary mathematical models → thinking about implications

Figure 11.9 Summary of the overall statistical process below gives an expanded view of the whole process of statistical modeling.

The next section discusses a second broad template for the world of statistics: that of statistical size and accuracy. If you can thoroughly grasp both this and the next chapter, you will have learned much of what ties together different types of statistical analyses, because the concepts of looking for a pattern in data, as well as the broad strokes of interpreting the parameters and coefficients of those patterns, is common throughout most statistical analytical techniques.