statisticize

English

Alternative forms

• statisticise

Etymology

From statistic +‎ -ize.

Verb

statisticize (third-person singular simple present statisticizes, present participle statisticizing, simple past and past participle statisticized)

1. (transitive) To make statistical; to apply statistical methods to; to cause to rely on statistics.
   • 1992 October, Steve Buckley, “Boss Hog: Jim Lachey is the best offensive lineman in football playing on the best team in football”, in Sport, volume 83, number 10, →ISSN, page 63:

     We can give you passing yardage if you want to talk quarterbacks, or earned-run average if you want to talk pitchers, or goals and assists if you want to talk hockey players, but, alas, professional football linemen, especially on the offensive side of the table, are not easily statisticized.

2. (intransitive) To use or collect statistics.
   • 1971 April 30, “Research by Experiment”, in Nature, volume 230, number 5296, →DOI, page 602:

     Many courses are given to aspiring scientists as introductory statistics or biometrics introducing elementary statistical methodology. The objective, however, is not to help budding statisticians to statisticize but to help experimental scientists to experiment properly.

Related terms

• statisticization, statisticalization