statistics

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English

Alternative forms

• statisticks (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stəˈtɪstɪks/

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Etymology 1

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.

Noun

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 terms

• applied statistics
• astrostatistics
• biostatistics
• defense-independent pitching statistics
• descriptive statistics
• ethnostatistics
• geostatistics
• inferential statistics
• lexicostatistics
• mathematical statistics
• parastatistics
• phonostatistics
• photostatistics
• statistician
• stats
• stylostatistics
• superstatistics
• thermostatistics
• vital statistics

 

Translations

mathematical science

• Albanian: statistikë (sq) f
• Arabic: عِلْم اَلْإِحْصَاء‎ m (ʿilm al-ʾiḥṣāʾ), إِحْصَائِيَّات‎ f pl (ʾiḥṣāʾiyyāt), إِحْصَاء‎ m (ʾiḥṣāʾ)
• Armenian: վիճակագրություն (hy) (vičakagrutʿyun)
• Azerbaijani: statistika
• Basque: estatistika (eu)
• Belarusian: статы́стыка (be) f (statýstyka)
• Bengali: পরিসংখ্যান (bn) (pôriśôṅkkhan)
• Bulgarian: стати́стика (bg) f (statístika)
• Burmese: စာရင်းအင်းပညာ (my) (carang:ang:pa.nya)
• Catalan: estadística (ca) f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: statistika (cs) f
• Danish: statistik (da) c
• Dutch: statistiek (nl) f
• Esperanto: statistiko
• Estonian: statistika (et)
• Finnish: tilastotiede (fi)
• French: statistiques (fr) f pl
• Galician: estatística f
• Georgian: სტატისტიკა (sṭaṭisṭiḳa)
• German: Statistik (de) f
• Greek: στατιστική (el) f (statistikí)
• Gujarati: આંકડાશાસ્ત્ર ? (ā̃kaḍāśāstra)
• Hebrew: סְטָטִיסְטִיקָה‎ (he) f (statístika)
• Hindi: सांख्यिकी f (sā̃khyikī)
• Hungarian: statisztika (hu)
• Indonesian: statistika (id)
• Interlingua: statistica
• Irish: staidreamh m, figiúirí m pl
• Italian: statistica (it) f
• Japanese: 統計学 (ja) (とうけいがく, tōkeigaku)
• Kazakh: статистика (statïstïka)
• Khmer: ស្ថិតិវិទ្យា (sthetevɨtyiə), ស្ថិតិ (km) (stheteʼ)
• Korean: 통계학 (tonggyehak)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: amar (ku)

  Sorani: ئامار‎ (ku) (amar)

• Kyrgyz: статистика (ky) (statistika)
• Lao: ສະຖິຕິສາດ (lo) (sa thi ti sāt)

• Latvian: statistika f
• Lithuanian: statistika f
• Macedonian: статистика f (statistika)
• Malay: perangkaan, statistik
• Maori: tatauranga
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: статистик (mn) (statistik)

  Uyghurjin: ᠰᠲ᠋ᠠᠲ᠋ᠢᠰᠲ᠋ᠢᠭ (st᠋at᠋ist᠋ig)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: statistikk (no) m

  Nynorsk: statistikk m

• Occitan: estatistica f
• Persian: آمار‎ (fa) (âmâr)
• Polish: statystyka (pl) f
• Portuguese: estatística (pt) f
• Romanian: statistică (ro) f
• Russian: стати́стика (ru) f (statístika)
• Scots: stateestics
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: статѝстика f

  Roman: statìstika (sh) f

• Slovak: štatistika f
• Slovene: statistika (sl) f
• Spanish: estadística (es) f
• Swedish: statistik (sv) c
• Tagalog: palaulatan
• Tajik: омор (omor), статистика (statistika)
• Tamil: புள்ளியியல் (ta) (puḷḷiyiyal)
• Thai: สถิติ (th) (sà-tì-dtì), สถิติศาสตร์ (th) (sà-tì-dtì-sàat)
• Tigrinya: ስታቲስቲክስ (sətatistiks)
• Turkish: istatistik (tr)
• Turkmen: statistika
• Ukrainian: стати́стика (uk) f (statýstyka)
• Urdu: شماریات‎ (śomāriyāt)
• Uyghur: ستاتىستىكا‎ (statistika)
• Uzbek: statistika (uz)
• Vietnamese: thống kê học (vi)
• Welsh: ystadaeth f
• Yiddish: סטאַטיסטיק‎ f (statistik)

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of probability and statistics

Etymology 2

Noun

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.

   Synonym: stats (informal)

Translations

collection of measurements

• Arabic: إِحْصَائِيَّات‎ ? (ʾiḥṣāʾiyyāt), إِحْصَاء‎‎ m (ʾiḥṣāʾ)
• Basque: estatistika (eu)
• Belarusian: статы́стыка (be) f (statýstyka)
• Bulgarian: стати́стика (bg) f (statístika)
• Burmese: စာရင်းအင်း (my) (carang:ang:)
• 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) (stheteʼ)

• Korean: 통계 (ko) (tonggye) (統計 (ko))
• Latvian: statistika ?
• Macedonian: статистика f (statistika)
• Norwegian: statistikk (no) ?
• Polish: statystyka (pl) f
• Portuguese: estatísticas (pt) f pl
• Russian: стати́стика (ru) f (statístika)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: статѝстика f

  Roman: statìstika (sh) f

• Slovak: štatistika f
• Slovene: statistika (sl) f
• Spanish: estadística (es) f
• Swedish: statistik (sv) ?
• Thai: สถิติ (th) (sà-tì-dtì)
• Ukrainian: стати́стика (uk) f (statýstyka)
• Vietnamese: thống kê (vi)
• Welsh: ystadegau f pl
• Yiddish: סטאַטיסטיק‎ f (statistik)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

statistics

1. plural of statistic