statistic
IPA: stʌtˈɪstɪk
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.
verb
- (transitive) To analyze or describe using statistics.
- (intransitive) To cite or calculate statistics.
- (transitive) To comprise (as statistics)
adjective
- Alternative form of statistical [Of or pertaining to statistics.]
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Examples of "statistic" in Sentences
- The statistics are readily obtainable.
- The writer exaggerated the statistics.
- That's statistically improbable in the extreme.
- Among medical doctors, the statistic is almost 75%.
- It is not a law but it is a statistic on a voltmeter.
- The following statistical measures of dispersion of the sample.
- This is the nature of the probabilities in statistical mechanics.
- Miller's statistics are an inexact measure of his worth to the side.
- The following is the statistical measures of dispersion of the sample.
- The statistics shows the measured rates of deforestation in the Amazon.
- The probability of the order statistic falling in the interval is equal.
- The Census Bureau maintains this site, linking to each state's main statistic site.
- He wryly adds, The point of a GDP statistic is to drain away those sorts of problems.
- This is a statistic from a poll that should send chills down the backs of not only Progressives, but their minions in the WH.
- Also, as for the 13% of Americans not blaming Bush – I wonder what the statistic is among Southern states affected by the storm.
- JP: not to diminish your point but the statistic is actually “2/3 of corporations paid no income taxes for at least one year between 1996 and 2005.”
- The median-household-income statistic is too blunt an instrument, because it includes households headed by 20-year-olds (i.e., students) as well as 90-year-olds (i.e., retirees).
- That weaselly separation of the source from the statistic is the kind of things students do when they are are making stuff up, or at least playing fast-and-loose with the figures.
- “My favorite statistic is that one-quarter of the members of the National Academy of Sciences were born abroad,” I was told by Harold Varmus, the president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and himself an academy member (and Nobel Prize winner).
- This statistic is especially important because people are much more likely to develop liver cancer or cirrhosis if they are infected early in life, rather than later in life (most people are infected with hepatitis B virus when they are adolescents and young adults).
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