Noun

(-) (always singular )

(informal, UK, except Canada)

* 1980' August 21, ''Girls can do '''maths as well as boys'', '' , page 586,

The conventional “commonsense” view now is that girls are conditioned both by family and teachers to believe that maths is a subject at which males excel, and that they believe they cannot be expected to comprehend its subtleties — so they don?t.

* 2004 , Miraca U.M. Gross, Exceptionally Gifted Children , page 229,

At age 10, Ian was based with the Grade 6 students but was allowed to take maths with Grade 10 – a four-year grade advancement.

* 2011 , Clifford Matthews, IMechE Engineers? Databook , Fourth edition, John Wiley & Sons, page 40,

Most people who are forced to use maths have little idea what it is really about.

Noun

(statistics)

(singular in construction) A mathematical science concerned with data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation.

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, author=Robert L. Dorit , title=Rereading Darwin , volume=100, issue=1, page=23 , magazine= citation , passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}

Statistics is the only mathematical field required for many social sciences.

(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.

The statistics from the Census for apportionment are available.

English plurals