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

terms derived from statistics

• 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

• Arabic: عِلْم اَلْإِحْصَاء‎ m (ʿilm al-ʾiḥṣāʾ), إِحْصَائِيَّات‎ f pl (ʾiḥṣāʾiyyāt)
• Armenian: վիճակագրություն (hy) (vičakagrutʿyun)
• Basque: estatistika (eu)
• Bengali: পরিসংখ্যান (bn) (pôrisôngkkhan)
• Bulgarian: статистика (bg) f (statístika)
• Catalan: estadística (ca) f
• 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)
• Gujarati: આંકડાશાસ્ત્ર (ā̃kaḍāśāstra)
• Hindi: सांख्यिकी f (sāṅkhyikī)
• Hungarian: statisztika (hu)
• Interlingua: statistica
• Irish: staidreamh m, figiúirí m pl
• Italian: statistica (it) f
• Japanese: 統計学 (ja) (とうけいがく, tōkeigaku)
• Khmer: ស្ថិតិវិទ្យា (sthetevɨtyiə)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ئامار‎ (ku) (amar)

• Lao: ສະຖິຕິສາດ (lo) (sa thi ti sāt)
• 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) (sà-tì-dtì), สถิติศาสตร์ (th) (sà-tì-dtì-sàat)
• Turkish: istatistik (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• 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.

Synonyms

• stats (informal)

Translations

collection of measurements

• Arabic: إِحْصَائِيَّات‎ (ʾiḥṣāʾiyyāt)
• 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) (stheteʾ)
• 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) (sà-tì-dtì)
• Yiddish: סטאַטיסטיק‎ f (statistik)

Etymology 3

Noun

statistics

1. plural of statistic