Statistics : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Statistics	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Statistics
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
statistics n a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Statistics \Sta*tis"tics\, n. [Cf. F. statistique, G. statistik. See {State}, n.] 1. The science which has to do with the collection and classification of certain facts respecting the condition of the people in a state. Note: [In this sense gramatically singular.] 2. pl. Classified facts respecting the condition of the people in a state, their health, their longevity, domestic economy, arts, property, and political strength, their resources, the state of the country, etc., or respecting any particular class or interest; especially, those facts which can be stated in numbers, or in tables of numbers, or in any tabular and classified arrangement.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
statistics The practice, study or result of the application of mathematical {functions} to collections of {data} in order to summarise or {extrapolate} that data. The subject of statistics can be divided into descriptive statistics - describing data, and analytical statistics - drawing conclusions from data. (1997-07-16)