Conceptual Role of Statistics in Big Data Analytics

Big Data has exploded everywhere—from businesses and healthcare to government, social sciences, and research labs—changing how we create, crunch, and use information. Sure, Big Data analytics often spotlights fancy tools, algorithms, and machine learning, but at its heart, it's all built on solid statistics. This paper dives into why stats matter so much in this world, looking at its theory, inference power, and even ethical side. It shows how statistical thinking drives everything: generating data, checking its quality, building models, measuring uncertainty, figuring out cause-and-effect, and making smart decisions amid massive datasets. Pulling together key theories and frameworks, the paper makes the case that stats is the discipline that turns overwhelming data piles into real, trustworthy insights. It lays out a new framework putting statistics front and center as the backbone of Big Data analytics, with big takeaways for researchers, practitioners, and educators. Bottom line: tech keeps evolving, but you can't do Big Data without stats.

@article{ijter2026212601053104,
  author = {Dr Amit R Popat},
  title = {Conceptual Role of Statistics in Big Data Analytics},
  journal = {International Journal of Technology &  Emerging Research },
  year = {2026},
  volume = {2},
  number = {1},
  pages = {10-16},
  doi =  {10.64823/ijter.2601002},
  issn = {3068-109X},
  url = {https://www.ijter.org/article/212601053104/conceptual-role-of-statistics-in-big-data-analytics},
  abstract = {Big Data has exploded everywhere—from businesses and healthcare to government, social sciences, and research labs—changing how we create, crunch, and use information. Sure, Big Data analytics often spotlights fancy tools, algorithms, and machine learning, but at its heart, it's all built on solid statistics.
  
  This paper dives into why stats matter so much in this world, looking at its theory, inference power, and even ethical side. It shows how statistical thinking drives everything: generating data, checking its quality, building models, measuring uncertainty, figuring out cause-and-effect, and making smart decisions amid massive datasets.
  
  Pulling together key theories and frameworks, the paper makes the case that stats is the discipline that turns overwhelming data piles into real, trustworthy insights. It lays out a new framework putting statistics front and center as the backbone of Big Data analytics, with big takeaways for researchers, practitioners, and educators. Bottom line: tech keeps evolving, but you can't do Big Data without stats.
  },
  keywords = {Statistics, Big Data Analytics, Statistical Inference, Data Science, Conceptual Study},
  month = {Jan},
}

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