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Statistic vs Statistics - What's the difference?

statistic | statistics |

As nouns the difference between statistic and statistics

is that statistic is a single item in a statistical study while statistics is a mathematical science concerned with data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation.

As an adjective statistic

is an alternative spelling of lang=en.

statistic

English

(wikipedia statistic)

Adjective

(en adjective)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A single item in a statistical study.
  • A quantity calculated from the data in a sample, which characterises an important aspect in the sample (such as mean or standard deviation).
  • A person, or personal event, reduced to being an item of statistical information.
    • By dying from an overdose, he became just another statistic .

    Synonyms

    * number

    Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * statistically * statistician

    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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