About ASTMâ¦. Two New Journals. â¢ Advances in Civil Engineering Materials covers topics relating to the. properties and performance of civil engineering materials, such as concrete, asphalt, steel, polymers and polymeric composites, and wood.
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. The term is used mostly in  connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include agriculture, business, and traffic censuses.
In descriptive statistics, summary statistics are used to summarize a set of observations, in order to communicate the largest amount of information as simply as possible. A common collection of order statistics used as summary statistics are the five-number summary, sometimes extended to a seven-number summary, and the associated box plot.