Statistics

Quick meaning: Statistics is a noun meaning plural of statistic.

Meaning

plural of statistic.

More Meanings

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of statistic
2. A discipline, principally within applied mathematics, concerned with the systematic study of the collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation of data.
3. A systematic collection of data on measurements or observations, often related to demographic information such as population counts, incomes, population counts at different ages, etc.

Example Sentences

The statistics from the Census for apportionment are available.

Statistics is the only mathematical field required for many social sciences.

We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.

Sufficient statistics for a given estimation problem are a collection of statistics or, equivalently, a collection of functions of the random sample, that summarize or represent all of the information in a random sample that is useful for estimating any #92;textbf#123;q#125;(#92;#33;#92;boldsymbol#92;Theta#92;#33;).

Word Forms

• statisticks

Synonyms for statistics

Depending on context, synonyms include stats.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include statistician, digit, statistical, data, number, figure.

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