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English

Etymology

From statistik, from statisticum ("of the state") and statista ("statesman" or "politician"); Statistik, first introduced by w:Gottfried Achenwall|Gottfried Achenwall (1749), originally designated the analysis of data about the state.

Adjective

Alternative spelling of statistical.

Translations

See: statistical

Noun

A single item in a statistical study.
A quantity calculated from the data in a sample, which characterises an important aspect in the sample (such as mean or standard deviation).
A person, or personal event, reduced to being an item of statistical information.
:By dying from an overdose, he became just another statistic.

Derived terms

Translations

Finnish: tilastotieto

Finnish: tunnusluku, tilastotieto

Finnish: tilastotieto

Category:Greek derivations

fa:statistic io:statistic id:statistic pl:statistic ru:statistic simple:statistic fi:statistic ta:statistic vi:statistic

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Statistic \Sta*tis"tic\ (st[.a]*t[i^]s"t[i^]k), Statistical
\Sta*tis"tic*al\ (-t[i^]*kal), a. [Cf. F. statistique.]
Of or pertaining to statistics; as, statistical knowledge;
statistical tabulation.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet statistic
n : a datum that can be represented numerically