Prognostic vs Statistical - What's the difference?
prognostic | statistical |
(rare, medicine) prognosis
A sign by which a future event may be known or foretold.
A prediction of the future.
* Macaulay
One who predicts the future.
Of or pertaining to statistics.
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As adjectives the difference between prognostic and statistical
is that prognostic is of, pertaining to or characterized by prognosis or prediction while statistical is of or pertaining to statistics.As a noun prognostic
is (rare|medicine) prognosis.prognostic
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Alternative forms
* prognostick (obsolete)Synonyms
* foretelling * predictiveNoun
(en noun)- (Parr)
- Careful observers may foretell the hour
- (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show’r.
- While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o’er
- Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more. Jonathan Swift
- The choice of a successor was no light matter. That choice would inevitably be considered by the country as a prognostic of the highest import.
Synonyms
* (sign) indication, sign, omen, foretelling, predictionstatistical
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}