statistics
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[edit] 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.
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statistics (plural statistics)
- (singular) A mathematical science concerned with data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation.
- (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.
- Plural form of statistic.
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terms derived from statistics
[edit] Translations
mathematical science
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collection of measurements
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