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statistics
/stəˈtɪstɪks/
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What does statistics mean?
noun
- A discipline, principally within applied mathematics, concerned with the systematic study of the collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation of data.
- 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.
- plural of statistic
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verb
- third-person singular simple present indicative of statistic
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IPA pronunciation
/stəˈtɪstɪks/
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There was another interesting set of statistics that a person might have gathered in Packingtown—those of the various afflictions of the workers.
We need a field worker to travel about the country and pick up all the hereditary statistics she can about our chicks.
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How could these men, who never had the faintest idea of statistics, valuation, or political economy, furnish us with principles of legislation?
Walters looked into the statistics of such cases and found 36 accidental removals of the uterus in the puerperium with 14 recoveries.
The statistics of insurance companies show that the average duration of adult human lives is shortened from seventeen to twenty-four per cent.