Statistics
[stə'tɪstɪks]
Definition
(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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Definition
(n.) The science which has to do with the collection and classification of certain facts respecting the condition of the people in a state.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The branch of mathematics which studies methods for the calculation of probabilities.
Editor: Moore
Definition
n. a collection of facts and figures regarding the condition of a people class &c.: the science which treats of the collection and arrangement of facts bearing on the condition—social moral and material—of a people.—adjs. Statist′ic -al pertaining to or containing statistics.—adv. Statist′ically.—n. Statistic′ian one skilled in statistics.
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Examples
- And he said, Here are the stutterings—' 'Statistics,' said Louisa. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- There are to-day (statistics of 1898), 445,064 miles of railway tracks in the world. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It was too clear and simple and too open and shut and many of the statistics he knew were faked by wishful thinking. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But statistics do not show that as a whole there are fewer printers in the land. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Statistics help. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Statistics then is no automatic device for measuring facts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Even the most refined statistics are nothing but an abstraction. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I wonder you don't go in for statistics. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Human statistics are illuminating to those who know humanity. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Some idea of the immensity of this industry may be obtained from the import statistics. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Voting, as Gabriel Tarde points out, is our most conspicuous use of statistics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But the moment you begin inquiries into subjects which people prefer to conceal, the weakness of statistics becomes obvious. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Although the electric pen had a large sale and use in its time, the statistics relating to it are not available. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Comment is made on kerosene and its cost, and all kinds of general statistics are jotted down as desirable. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I would not trust a hermit's inferences about the statistics of anything. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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