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Stats vs Statistics - What's the difference?

stats | statistics |

Statistics is a synonym of stats.

Statistics is a derived term of stats.

Statistics is a related term of stats.



As nouns the difference between stats and statistics

is that stats is a short form of statistics (the subject) while statistics is a mathematical science concerned with data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation.

stats

English

Noun

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  • (informal, in the singular) A short form of statistics (the subject ).
    • Stats is one of her favourite subjects at school.
  • (informal, in the plural) A short form of statistics (data, figures )
    • What do the stats tell us?

    Related terms

    * stat * statistics English palindromes ----

    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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