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sta·tis·tics       [stuh-tis-tiks] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.(used with a singular verb) the science that deals with the collection, classification, analysis, and interpretation of numerical facts or data, and that, by use of mathematical theories of probability, imposes order and regularity on aggregates of more or less disparate elements.
2.(used with a plural verb) the numerical facts or data themselves.

[Origin: 1780–90; see statistic, -ics]
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sta·tis·tic       (stə-tĭs'tĭk)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A numerical datum.
  2. A numerical value, such as standard deviation or mean, that characterizes the sample or population from which it was derived.
  3. One viewed as a nameless item of statistical information: got laid off and became another statistic in the slumping economy.


[Ultimately from New Latin statisticus, of statecraft; see statistics.]

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sta·tis·tics       (stə-tĭs'tĭks)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. (used with a sing. verb) The mathematics of the collection, organization, and interpretation of numerical data, especially the analysis of population characteristics by inference from sampling.
  2. (used with a pl. verb) Numerical data.


[From German Statistik, political science, from New Latin statisticus, of state affairs, from Italian statista, person skilled in statecraft, from stato, state, from Old Italian, from Latin status, position, form of government; see stā- in Indo-European roots.]

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statistics 
1770, "science dealing with data about the condition of a state or community," from Ger. Statistik, popularized and perhaps coined by Ger. political scientist Gottfried Aschenwall (1719-72) in his "Vorbereitung zur Staatswissenschaft" (1748), from Mod.L. statisticum (collegium) "(lecture course on) state affairs," from It. statista "one skilled in statecraft," from L. status (see state (n.1)). Meaning "numerical data collected and classified" is from 1829. Abbreviated form stats first recorded 1961. Statistician is from 1825.

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statistics

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

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statistics       (stə-tĭs'tĭks)  Pronunciation Key 
  1. (Used with a singular verb) The branch of mathematics that deals with the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of numerical data. Statistics is especially useful in drawing general conclusions about a set of data from a sample of the data.
  2. (Used with a plural verb) Numerical data.

American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
statistics

The branch of mathematics dealing with numerical data. (See mean, median, mode, normal distribution curve, sample, standard deviation, and statistical significance.)

Note: A particular problem of statistics is estimating true values of parameters from a sample of data.

[Chapter:] Physical Sciences and Mathematics


Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This

statistics statistics, mathematics
The practice, study or result of the application of mathematical functions to collections of data in order to summarise or extrapolate that data.
The subject of statistics can be divided into descriptive statistics - describing data, and analytical statistics - drawing conclusions from data.
(1997-07-16)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Statistics

Sta*tis"tics\, n. [Cf. F. statistique, G. statistik. See State, n.]

1. The science which has to do with the collection and classification of certain facts respecting the condition of the people in a state.

Note: [In this sense gramatically singular.]

2. pl. Classified facts respecting the condition of the people in a state, their health, their longevity, domestic economy, arts, property, and political strength, their resources, the state of the country, etc., or respecting any particular class or interest; especially, those facts which can be stated in numbers, or in tables of numbers, or in any tabular and classified arrangement.

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