statistics
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
statistics/stəˈtɪstɪks/
▶plural noun [treated as sing.] the practice or science of collecting and analysing numerical data in large quantities, especially for the purpose of inferring proportions in a whole from those in a representative sample.
– derivatives
statistician noun.
statistician noun.
'statistics' also found in these Oxford entries:
actuary
- ANOVA
- autocorrelation
- baseline
- Bayes' theorem
- bias
- bimodal
- bin
- binomial distribution
- bivariate
- chi
- cliometrics
- cluster
- confidence interval
- contingency table
- control
- correction
- correlation
- correlation coefficient
- covariance
- cross section
- crude
- cumulative error
- data
- decile
- demography
- deviation
- discrete
- dispersion
- econometrics
- error
- expected value
- factor analysis
- fit
- frequency distribution
- Gaussian distribution
- goodness
- graph
- graphical
- grey
- histogram
- -ile
- kurtosis
- least squares
- life table
- log-normal
- Markov model
- median
- metric
- modal
