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Define statistics and discuss its importance in the field of computational sciences. The following are the numbers of minutes that a person had to wait for the bus to work on 20 working days: 15, 10, 2, 17, 5, 8, 3, 10, 2, 9, 5, 9, 13, 1, 10, 12, 5, 10, 8, 4. Compute mean, median, mode, standard, variance and coefficient of variation. [10]