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Standards vs Statistics - What's the difference?

standards | statistics |

As nouns the difference between standards and statistics

is that standards is plural of lang=en while statistics is a mathematical science concerned with data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation.

As a verb standards

is (plural form only): Pertaining to standards, concerned with standards, specific to standards.

standards

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (plural form only): Pertaining to standards, concerned with standards, specific to standards.
    • There is some sign of disparate standards bodies becoming more closely aligned.
    Usage notes
    A body or organization that dictates standards' does not exist to confer details about a single standard. ''Standard'' as an adjective generally refers to a specific version of a ''standard'' issued by a '''standards''' institution; that ''standard'' version itself will actually be a list of many individual ''standards''. For example, ANSI ''Standard'' MUMPS refers to the 1995 MUMPS programming language specification issued by the American National '''Standards''' Institute, a '''standards organization. 1995 MUMPS ''standard'' specifies many ''standards'' that a programming language must adhere to, to be legitimately recognised as "''standard MUMPS." ----

    statistics

    English

    (wikipedia statistics)

    Alternative forms

    * statisticks (obsolete)

    Noun

    (statistics)
  • (singular in construction) A mathematical science concerned with data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , 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

    • Synonyms

    * stats (informal)

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from statistics) * applied statistics * astrostatistics * biostatistics * defense-independent pitching statistics * descriptive statistics * geostatistics * inferential statistics * lexicostatistics * mathematical statistics * parastatistics * phonostatistics * photostatistics * statistician * stats * stylostatistics * superstatistics * thermostatistics * vital statistics

    See also

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