Statistic vs. Statistics

Statisticadjective

alternative form of statistical

Statisticnoun

A single item in a statistical study.

Statisticnoun

A quantity calculated from the data in a sample, which characterises an important aspect in the sample (such as mean or standard deviation).

Statisticnoun

A person, or personal event, reduced to being an item of statistical information.

Statisticadjective

Of or pertaining to statistics; as, statistical knowledge; statistical tabulation.

Statisticnoun

a datum that can be represented numerically

Statisticnoun

a fact or piece of data obtained from a study of a large quantity of numerical data

Statisticnoun

an event or person regarded as no more than a piece of data (used to suggest an inappropriately impersonal approach)

Statisticadjective

another term for statistical

Statistic

A statistic (singular) or sample statistic is any quantity computed from values in a sample which is considered for a statistical purpose. Statistical purposes include estimating a population parameter, describing a sample, or evaluating a hypothesis.

Statisticsnoun

A mathematical science concerned with data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation.

Statisticsnoun

The science which has to do with the collection, classification, and analysis of facts of a numerical nature regarding any topic.

Statisticsnoun

Classified facts of a numerical nature regarding any topic.

Statisticsnoun

The branch of mathematics which studies methods for the calculation of probabilities.

Statisticsnoun

a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters

Statisticsnoun

the practice or science of collecting and analysing numerical data in large quantities, especially for the purpose of inferring proportions in a whole from those in a representative sample.

Statistics

Statistics is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a scientific, industrial, or social problem, it is conventional to begin with a statistical population or a statistical model to be studied.