Refactor the Statistics classes to match the specialized pattern used throughout parquet
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Because Parquet tries very hard to avoid autoboxing, most of the core classes are specialized for each primitive by having a method for each type, eg:
```Java
void writeInt(int x);
void writeLong(long x);
void writeDouble(double x);
```
and so on.
However, the statistics classes take the other approach of having an InstStatistics class, a LongStatistics class, a DoubleStatistics class and so on. I think it's worth going for consistency and picking a pattern and sticking to it. Seems like the first pattern I mentioned is currently the more common one.
We may want to take this one step further and define an interface that these all conform to, eg:
```Java
public interface ParquetTypeVisitor {
void visitInt(int x);
void visitLong(long x);
void visitDouble(double x);
}
```
**Reporter**: [Alex Levenson](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=alexlevenson) / @isnotinvain
**Note**: *This issue was originally created as [PARQUET-32](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-32). Please see the [migration documentation](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-2502) for further details.*
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