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

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne