[
UK
/stɐtˈɪstɪks/
]
[ US /stəˈtɪstɪks/ ]
[ US /stəˈtɪstɪks/ ]
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
How To Use statistics In A Sentence
- For instance, a few weeks ago in my sports statistics class, I envisioned a type of graph that’s a combination boxplot and lineplot — instead of turning towards Excel, I coded a Mathematica module to create this type of graph and then automate the creation of many of these. Wolfram Blog : Get Your Game On for Mathematics Awareness Month!
- For example, you may not be allowed to study, say, economics unless you also take statistics or computing.
- Statistics paint a sobering picture — unemployment, tight credit, lower home values, sluggish job growth.
- Firstly, exact data on the overall population can be obtained from the annually updated census list based statistics.
- The overall statistics include 185 progeny sired by North American stallions that were foaled abroad.
- But these statistics represent neither success nor failure in this complex counterinsurgency. Times, Sunday Times
- Sport is played not through statistics, but through raw passion, ungirdled emotion and pure unadulterated spirit.
- Economic statistics: Labour market statistics: average earnings.
- Statistics compiled for the Group show that the male suicide rate has more than doubled over the past twenty years while the female rate has remained fairly constant.
- "Debt is at historically unprecedented levels, " according to the Office for National Statistics.