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sta⋅tis⋅tics

  [stuh-tis-tiks]
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–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

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–noun Statistics.
a numerical fact or datum, esp. one computed from a sample.
Origin:
1780–90; < NL statisticus. See status, -istic
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sta·tis·tic   (stə-tĭs'tĭk)   
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.]
sta·tis·tics   (stə-tĭs'tĭks)   
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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Cultural Dictionary

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.
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Word Origin & History

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.

statistic  (n.)
"quantitative fact or statement," 1880; see statistics.
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Computing Dictionary

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.
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