Trace vs Statistics - What's the difference?
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An act of tracing.
A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
A very small amount.
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An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
(fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.
The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
(mathematics) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
To follow the trail of.
* Milton
To follow the history of.
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To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
(obsolete) To copy; to imitate.
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(obsolete) To walk; to go; to travel.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
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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
As nouns the difference between trace and statistics
is that trace is an act of tracing while statistics is a mathematical science concerned with data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation.As a verb trace
is to follow the trail of.trace
English
(wikipedia trace)Etymology 1
From (etyl) trace, traas, from (etyl) , from the verb (see below).Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.}}
Derived terms
* downtrace, uptraceSynonyms
* (mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal) track, trail * (small amount) see also .Etymology 2
From (etyl) tracen, from (etyl) tracer, .Verb
- I feel thy power to trace the ways / Of highest agents.
- (Cowper)
- You may trace the deluge quite round the globe.
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- He carefully traced the outlines of the old building before him.
- That servile path thou nobly dost decline, / Of tracing word, and line by line.
- Not wont on foot with heavy arms to trace .
- We do trace this alley up and down.
Anagrams
* * * * * ----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.