English
statistics
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /stəˈtɪstɪks/
Etymology 1

From German Statistik, from nl. statisticum and Italian statista, compare English statist.

Noun

statistics (uncountable)

  1. A discipline, principally within applied mathematics, concerned with the systematic study of the collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation of data.
    Statistics is the only mathematical field required for many social sciences.
    • 2004, David C. LeBlanc, Statistics: Concepts and Applications for Science, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, page 61 ↗,
      The application of statistics in the process of science can be divided into three parts: (1) obtaining data (experiment and sampling design), (2) summarizing and describing data (exploratory data analysis, descriptive statistics), and (3) using data from samples and experiments to make estimates and test competing hypotheses about the universe (inferential statistics).
Translations Noun

statistics (plural p)

  1. 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.
    Synonyms: stats
    The statistics from the Census for apportionment are available.
Translations Noun
  1. plural form of statistic
Verb
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative of statistic


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