Statistics vs Count - What's the difference?
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(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
To recite numbers in sequence.
To determine the number (of objects in a group).
To be of significance; to matter.
To be an example of something.
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(obsolete) To take account or note (of).
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(UK, legal) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
The act of or tallying a quantity.
The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
A countdown.
(legal) A charge of misconduct brought in a legal proceeding.
(baseball) The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
(obsolete) An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
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The male ruler of a county.
A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
As nouns the difference between statistics and count
is that statistics is (singular in construction) a mathematical science concerned with data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation while count is the act of or tallying a quantity or count can be the male ruler of a county.As a verb count is
to recite numbers in sequence.statistics
English
(wikipedia statistics)Alternative forms
* statisticks (obsolete)Noun
(statistics)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.
- The statistics from the Census for apportionment are available.
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 statisticsSee also
*count
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) counten, from (etyl) conter, from (etyl) ).Verb
(en verb)- This excellent man counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen.
Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.
- No man counts of her beauty.
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Derived terms
* count one's blessings * count outNoun
(en noun)- Give the chairs a quick count to check if we have enough.
- He has a 3-2 count with the bases loaded.
- all his care and count