statistics

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Derived terms 1.2.2 Translations 1.2.3 See also

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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.

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statistics (plural statistics)

1. (singular) A mathematical science concerned with data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation.
2. (collective noun) 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.
3. Plural form of statistic.

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• Appendix:Glossary of probability and statistics