Information vs Statistics - What's the difference?
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Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.
The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.
(legal) A statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform a magistrate of an offence and request a warrant; in the US, an accusation brought before a judge without a grand jury indictment.
(obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.
(Christianity) Divine inspiration.
(information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the .
A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.
As contrasted with data, knowledge which is gathered as a result of processing data.
(computing) […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
(singular in construction) A mathematical science concerned with data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation.
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(plural in construction) 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.
English plurals
As nouns the difference between information and statistics
is that information is information while statistics is (singular in construction) a mathematical science concerned with data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation.information
English
Noun
(en-noun)- I need some more information about this issue.
- For your information , I did this because I wanted to.
- And as you can see in this slide, we then take the raw data and convert it into information .
Usage notes
* The definition of information in the computing context is from an international standard vocabulary which, though formally accepted, is largely ignored by the computing profession that should be adhering to it.[http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1957/]Derived terms
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(wikipedia statistics)Alternative forms
* statisticks (obsolete)Noun
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- Statistics is the only mathematical field required for many social sciences.
- The statistics from the Census for apportionment are available.