plural of statist

(statistics) A branch of statistics dealing with summarization and description of collections of data—data sets, including the concepts of arithmetic mean, median, mode, and quantile.

plural of vital statistic

Statistics of births, marriages and deaths. / The size of a woman's bust, waist and hips, normally measured in inches. / A concise set of trivia on a subject, sometimes in table format.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see particle, statistics.

(statistics) A branch of statistics studying statistical inference—drawing conclusions about a population from a random sample drawn from it, or, more generally, about a random process from its observed behavior during a finite period of time.

Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics.

(statistics) The study of statistics from a purely mathematical standpoint, using probability theory, measure theory, linear algebra and analysis.

(mathematics, physics) A generalization of the statistics of bosons and fermions based on the concept of braid group.

(mathematics, statistics) A discipline within mathematical statistics in which algebra is used to describe and analyse problems;