statistics

Wikipedia

For Wiktionary’s statistics, see Wiktionary:Statistics and Special:Statistics

English

Alternative forms

• statisticks (obsolete)

Etymology

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 (plural statistics)

1. (singular in construction) A mathematical science concerned with data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation.

   Statistics is the only mathematical field required for many social sciences.

2. (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.

   The statistics from the Census for apportionment are available.

3. Plural form of statistic.

Synonyms

• stats (informal)

Derived terms

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

Translations

mathematical science

Arabic: علم الإحصاء (ar) (`ilm al-’iHSā’) m., إحصائيات (ar) ('iHSa'iyyāt) m. pl. Basque: estatistika (eu) Bengali: পরিসংখ্যান (bn) Bulgarian: статистика (bg) (statístika) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 統計學 (cmn), 统计学 (cmn) (tǒngjìxué) Croatian: statistika (hr) f. Czech: statistika (cs) f. Danish: statistik (da) Dutch: statistiek (nl) f. Esperanto: statistiko (eo) Finnish: tilastotiede (fi) French: statistiques (fr) f. Georgian: სტატისტიკა (ka) (st'ast'ist'ika) German: Statistik (de) f. Greek: στατιστική (el) (statistikí) f. Hungarian: statisztika (hu) Interlingua: statistica Italian: statistica (it) f.

Japanese: 統計学 (ja) (とうけいがく, tōkeigaku) Khmer: ស្ថិតិវិទ្យា Kurdish: Sorani: ئامار (ku) (amar) Latvian: statistika (lv) Macedonian: статистика (mk) (statístika) f. Norwegian: statistikk (no) Polish: statystyka (pl) f. Portuguese: estatística (pt) f. Romanian: statistică (ro) Russian: статистика (ru) (statístika) f. Scots: stateestics Slovene: statistika (sl) f. Spanish: estadística (es) f. Swedish: statistik (sv) Tagalog: palautatan (tl) Tamil: புள்ளியியல் (ta) Thai: สถิติ (th) Turkish: istatistik (tr)

collection of measurements

Arabic: إحصائيات (ar) ('iHSa'iyyāt) m. pl., إحصاء (ar) ('iHSā') m. Basque: estatistika (eu) Chinese: Mandarin: 統計 (cmn), 统计 (cmn) (tǒngjì) Croatian: statistika (hr) f. Czech: statistika (cs) f. Danish: statistik (da) Dutch: statistiek (nl) f. Finnish: tilasto, tilastotiedot pl., tilastot pl. French: statistiques (fr) f. German: Statistik (de) f. Greek: στατιστική (el) (statistikí) f. Hungarian: statisztika (hu) Interlingua: statistica

Italian: statistica (it) f. Japanese: 統計 (ja) (とうけい, tōkei) Khmer: ស្ថិតិ Korean: 통계 (tonggye) (統計) Latvian: statistika (lv) Macedonian: статистика (mk) (statístika) f. Norwegian: statistikk (no) Polish: statystyka (pl) f. Portuguese: estatísticas (pt) f. pl. Russian: статистика (ru) (statístika) f. Spanish: estadística (es) f. Swedish: statistik (sv) Thai: สถิติ (th)

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of probability and statistics