statistics

Statistics — is a mathematical science pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data. Also with prediction and forecasting based on data. It is applicable to a wide variety of academic disciplines, from the… …   Wikipedia

Statistics NZ — Statistics New Zealand (maori Te Tari Tatau; deutsch etwa Statistiken Neuseeland) ist das statistische Amt Neuseelands. Auf Grundlage des Statistics Act 1975 ist es für die amtliche Statistik Neuseelands zuständig ist. Der Sitz der Behörde… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

statistics — ► [plural] also INFORMAL stats) numbers that give information about a particular situation or event: crime/employment/economic statistics »The latest employment statistics portray California as only narrowly avoiding a recession.… …   Financial and business terms

statistics — noun is treated as singular as the name of the science (Statistics is merely a form of knowledge), and as plural when referring to items of statistical information (The statistics of suicide are striking). The singular form statistic, denoting a… …   Modern English usage

Statistics — Sta*tis tics (st[.a]*t[i^]s t[i^]ks), n. [Cf. F. statistique, G. statistik. See {State}, n.] 1. The science which has to do with the collection, classification, and analysis of facts of a numerical nature regarding any topic. Specifically: The… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

statistics — index census, information (facts) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

Statistics —   [engl.], Statistik …   Universal-Lexikon

statistics — 1770, science dealing with data about the condition of a state or community, from Ger. Statistik, popularized and perhaps coined by German political scientist Gottfried Aschenwall (1719 1772) in his Vorbereitung zur Staatswissenschaft (1748),… …   Etymology dictionary

statistics — ► PLURAL NOUN (treated as sing. ) ▪ the collection and analysis of numerical data in large quantities. DERIVATIVES statistician noun …   English terms dictionary

statistics — [stə tis′tiks] pl.n. [< Ger statistik < ModL statisticus: see STATISTICAL] facts or data of a numerical kind, assembled, classified, and tabulated so as to present significant information about a given subject n. the calculation,… …   English World dictionary

statistics — /steuh tis tiks/, n. 1. (used with a sing. v.) the science that deals with the collection, classification, analysis, and interpretation of numerical facts or data, and that, by use of mathematical theories of probability, imposes order and… …   Universalium