statistics
/stəˈtɪs.tɪks/ · noun
Meaning
- A discipline, principally within applied mathematics, concerned with the systematic study of the collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation of data.
- A systematic collection of data on measurements or observations, often related to demographic information such as population counts, incomes, population counts at different ages, etc.
- plural of statistic
- third-person singular simple present indicative of statistic
Etymology / origin
From German Statistik, from New Latin statisticum (“of the state”) and Italian statista (“statesman, politician”), compare English statist. Statistik introduced by Gottfried Achenwall (1749), originally designated the analysis of data about the state.
- statist(English)→
- statista(Italian)→
- statisticum(la-new)→
- Statistik(German)→
- statistics (English)
- Relations: bor, der, der, cog
Related words
Descendant words
- stat(Chinese) (der)
- statistiko(Ido) (bor)
- സ്റ്റാറ്റിസ്റ്റിക്സ്(Malayalam) (bor)
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