statistic
noun · verb · adjective
Simple meaning
A quantity calculated from the data in a sample, which characterises an important aspect in the sample.
Pronunciation
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IPA pronunciation (US)
stəˈtɪstɪk
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Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
A quantity calculated from the data in a sample, which characterises an important aspect in the sample (such as mean or standard deviation).
A single item in a statistical study.
A person, or personal event, reduced to being an item of statistical information.
verb
transitive
To analyze or describe using statistics.
intransitive
To cite or calculate statistics.
transitive
To comprise (as statistics)
adjective
Of or pertaining to statistics.
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- B2 · Upper Intermediate (estimated)
- Frequency
- Moderately Common
- Formality
- Technical
Word Aura™
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This meaning: A quantity calculated from the data in a sample, which characterises an important aspect in the sample (such as mean or standard deviation).
Used this way, statistic is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It suits considered writing and prepared speech.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Serious and weighty
- Usage feel
- Formal and precise
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use statistic
- “The statistic showed that more people are working from home now than ever before.”noun
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Word Family
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Inflected forms
Grammatical variations of the same word.
A branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters.
Word family
Words built from the same root.
A mathematician who specializes in statistics.
Related to a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters.
With respect to statistics.
Compound terms
Established multiword terms.
A statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn.
Any statistic computed by procedures that assume the data were drawn from a particular distribution.
A statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn.
A statistical relation between two or more variables such that systematic changes in the value of one variable are accompanied by systematic changes in the other.
The agency in the Department of Justice that is the primary source of criminal justice statistics for federal and local policy makers.
Statistical law obeyed by a system of particles whose wave function is not changed when two particles are interchanged (the Pauli exclusion principle does not apply).
Related words
Connected by subject or meaning, not by word formation.
A method of analyzing or representing statistical data.
A method of analyzing or representing statistical data.
An arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence.
A mathematician who specializes in statistics.
Related Words
Connected to the same idea, not synonyms.
- nullnoun
- samplingnoun
- deviationnoun
- estimatornoun
- approximationnoun
- estimateverb
- statisticsnoun
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