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   Statistics
   Statistics is the study of numerical data, their classification and analysis. It embraces every department of activity and knowledge to which numerical comparison can be applied, but properly applies to social facts, and its greatest use is in economics and public administration.
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   Statistics
   Mathematical techniques for analysing and interpreting numerical data.
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   Statistics
   Used in the singular - the area of study that has as its object the collection and arrangement of numerical facts or data, whether relating to human affairs or natural phenomena. Used in the plural - numerical facts or data collected and classified.
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   Statistics
   Mathematical techniques for analysing and interpreting numerical data.
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   [n] - a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters
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   The word 'statistics' is used in several different senses. For example it can be used to refer to a range of techniques and procedures for analysing, interpreting and displaying data. In a second usage, a 'statistic' is defined as a numerical quantity (eg the mean) calculated in a sample ie a numerical summary of sample data. Such statistics are used to estimate parameters.
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   Statistics
   Collecting and analysing data to make comparisons and see patterns in research results.
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   (statistics, mathematics) The practice, study or result of the application of mathematical functions to collections of data in order to summarise or extrapolate that data. The subject of statistics can be divided into descriptive statistics - describing data, and analytical statistics - drawing conclusions from data. (1997-07-16)
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   statistics
   in a narrower sense the term..--..is used to denote the data themselves or numbers devived from the data....employment statistics. Category: Statistics
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    Statistics
    Definition (keystage 2) The collecting, classify and interpreting of data, facts and figures. <br /> The main concerns of statistics are: <br /> i, how widely different is the collected data (the range); <br /> ii, what is typical about the data (the average, the most common result).
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    Definition (keystage 3) The study of the ways that large amounts of data can be represented using a few numbers; the study of how such numbers can be chosen, related to one another and used to make reasonable predictions and come to sensible conclusions about the data, and about the situation that the data are taken from.
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    Statistics
    Sta·tis'tics noun [ Confer French statistique , German statistik . See State , noun ] 1. The science which has to do with the collection and classification of certain facts respecting the condition of the people in a state. [ In this sense gramatically singular.] 2. plural Classified facts respecting the condition of the people in a ...
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    The science and art of collecting, summarizing, and analyzing data that are subject to random variation. The term is also applied to the data themselves and to the summarization of the data. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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    noun a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters
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    data that can be represented numerically
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    Statistics
    `Statistics` is a mathematical science pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data. It is applicable to a wide variety of academic disciplines, from the natural and social sciences to the humanities. Statistics is also used for making informed decisions in government and business. Statistical methods can be used to summarize or describe a collection of data; this is called `descriptive statisti...
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    statistics
    Relevant terms: acceptance region, adapted, almost surely, alternative hypothesis, ANOVA, AR, AR(1), ARCH, autoregressive process, b, bandwidth, Bayesian analysis, Bonferroni criterion, bootstrapping, Box-Cox transformation, Cauchy distribution, cdf, characteristic function, chi-square distribution, coefficient of variation, complete, consistent, c...
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    statistics
    (stә-tis´tiks) a collection of numerical data. the mathematical science dealing with the collection, analysis, and interpretation of numerical data using the theory of probability, especially with methods for drawing inferences about characteristics of a population from examination of a random sample...
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    • (n.) The science which has to do with the collection and classification of certain facts respecting the condition of the people in a state. • (n.) Classified facts respecting the condition of the people in a state, their health, their longevity, domestic economy, arts, property, and political strength, their resources, the state of the ...
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    the science of collecting, analyzing, presenting, and interpreting data. Governmental needs for census data as well as information about a variety of ... [15 related articles]
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    Quantitative abstractions of group measurements, such as mean, median and mode. Statistics about groups of individuals are often invoked erroneously to define characteristics of an individual, regardless of contradictory evidence, as in Estimated True Scores.
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    The branch of mathematics concerned with the manipulation of numerical information. Statistics has two branches: descriptive statistics, dealing with the classification and presentation of data, and inferential or analytical statistics, which studies ways of collecting data, its analysis and interpr...
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    statistics
    statistics, science of collecting and classifying a group of facts according to their relative number and determining certain values that represent characteristics of the group. The most familiar statistical measure is the arithmetic mean, which is an average value for a group of numerical observati...
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    Statistics
    The systematic study of quantitative facts, numerical data, comparative materials, obtained through description and interpretation of group phenomena. The method of using and interpreting processes of classification, enumeration, measurement and evaluation of group phenomena. In a restricted sense, the materials, facts or data referring to group ...
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