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.
- 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.