statistics
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /stəˈtɪstɪks/
From German Statistik, from nl. statisticum and Italian statista, compare English statist.
Nounstatistics (uncountable)
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).
- French: statistique
- German: Statistik
- Italian: statistica
- Portuguese: estatística
- Russian: стати́стика
- Spanish: estadística
statistics (plural p)
- 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.
- French: statistiques
- German: Statistik
- Italian: statistica
- Portuguese: estatísticas
- Russian: стати́стика
- Spanish: estadística
- plural form of statistic
- Third-person singular simple present indicative of statistic
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