Associations to the word «Statistics»

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Wiktionary

STATISTICS, noun. A mathematical science concerned with data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation.
STATISTICS, noun. 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.
STATISTICS, noun. Plural of statistic

Dictionary definition

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.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky