English Explanatory Dictionary

statistics

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A discipline, principally within applied mathematics, concerned with the systematic study of the collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation of data.
noun
  1. 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.
noun
  1. plural of statistic
verb
  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of statistic

Pronunciation

/stəˈtɪs.tɪks/ en-us-statistics.ogg /sʈəˈʈɪs.ʈɪks/ /ˈsʈæ.ʈɪs.ʈɪks/

Word forms

statistics statisticks

Etymology

From German Statistik, from New Latin statisticum (“of the state”) and Italian statista (“statesman, politician”), compare English statist. Statistik introduced by Gottfried Achenwall (1749), originally designated the analysis of data about the state.

Synonyms

stats

Derived words

algebraic statistics applied statistics astrostatistics biostatistics bistatistics Bose-Einstein statistics braid statistics defense-independent pitching statistics descriptive statistics Einstein-Bose statistics ethnostatistics Fermi-Dirac statistics F-statistics geostatistics inferential statistics lexicostatistics macrostatistics mathematical statistics microstatistics neurostatistics nonstatistics parastatistics particle statistics phonostatistics photostatistics statistician statistology stats stylostatistics superstatistics thermostatistics vital statistics
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