statistics

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EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• statisticks (obsolete)

Etymology 1Edit

From German Statistik, from New Latin statisticum (“of the state”) and Italian statista (“statesman, politician”). Statistik introduced by Gottfried Achenwall (1749), originally designated the analysis of data about the state.

PronunciationEdit

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NounEdit

statistics (uncountable)

1. A mathematical science concerned with data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation.
   • 2012 January 1, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist^[1], volume 100, number 1, page 23:

     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.

Derived termsEdit

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

TranslationsEdit

mathematical science

• Arabic: عِلْم اَلْإِحْصَاء‏‎ m (ʿilm al-ʾiḥṣāʾ), إِحْصَائِيَّات‏‎ m pl (ʾiḥṣāʾiyyāt)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: estatistika (eu)
• Bengali: পরিসংখ্যান (bn) (pôrisôngkhyan)
• Bulgarian: статистика (bg) f (statístika)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 統計學 (zh), 统计学 (zh) (tǒngjìxué)

• Czech: statistika (cs) f
• Danish: statistik (da)
• Dutch: statistiek (nl) f
• Esperanto: statistiko
• Finnish: tilastotiede (fi)
• French: statistiques (fr) f
• Georgian: სტატისტიკა (sṭaṭisṭiḳa)
• German: Statistik (de) f
• Greek: στατιστική (el) f (statistikí)
• Hungarian: statisztika (hu)
• Interlingua: statistica
• Irish: staidreamh m, figiúirí m pl
• Italian: statistica (it) f
• Japanese: 統計学 (とうけいがく, tōkeigaku)
• Khmer: ស្ថិតិវិទ្យា (sthĕtĕvĭtyéa)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ئامار‏‎ (ku) (amar)

• Latvian: statistika
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: статистика f (statístika)
• Malay: perangkaan, statistik
• Maori: tatauranga
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: statistikk (no)
• Polish: statystyka (pl) f
• Portuguese: estatística (pt) f
• Romanian: statistică (ro)
• Russian: стати́стика (ru) f (statístika)
• Scots: stateestics
• Serbo-Croatian: statistika (sh) f
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Slovene: statistika (sl) f
• Spanish: estadística (es) f
• Swedish: statistik (sv)
• Tagalog: palaulatan
• Tamil: புள்ளியியல் (ta) (puḷḷiyiyal)
• Thai: สถิติ (th)
• Turkish: istatistik (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: סטאַטיסטיק‏‎ f (statistik)

See alsoEdit

• Appendix:Glossary of probability and statistics

Etymology 2Edit

NounEdit

statistics pl (plural only)

1. 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.

SynonymsEdit

• stats (informal)

TranslationsEdit

collection of measurements

• Arabic: إِحْصَائِيَّات‏‎ m pl (ʾiḥṣāʾiyyāt), إِحْصَاء‏‎ m (ʾiḥṣāʾ)
• Basque: estatistika (eu)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 統計 (zh), 统计 (zh) (tǒngjì)

• Czech: statistika (cs) f
• Danish: statistik (da)
• Dutch: statistiek (nl) f
• Estonian: statistika (et)
• Finnish: tilasto (fi), tilastotiedot pl, tilastot pl
• French: statistiques (fr) f
• German: Statistik (de) f
• Greek: στατιστική (el) f (statistikí)
• Hungarian: statisztika (hu)
• Interlingua: statistica
• Italian: statistica (it) f

• Japanese: 統計 (ja) (とうけい, tōkei)
• Khmer: ស្ថិតិ (km) (sthĕtĕ)
• Korean: 통계 (tonggye) (統計)
• Latvian: statistika
• Macedonian: статистика f (statístika)
• Norwegian: statistikk (no)
• Polish: statystyka (pl) f
• Portuguese: estatísticas (pt) f pl
• Russian: стати́стика (ru) f (statístika)
• Serbo-Croatian: statistika (sh) f
• Spanish: estadística (es) f
• Swedish: statistik (sv)
• Thai: สถิติ (th)
• Yiddish: סטאַטיסטיק‏‎ f (statistik)

Etymology 3Edit

NounEdit

statistics

1. plural of statistic