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.

(statistics) 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.

(computational linguistics) The study of estimation of the meanings of words by looking at patterns of words in huge collections of texts, using statistical methods.

(statistics) A measure of how unlikely it is that a result has occurred by chance.

Any of twelve regions of Slovenia created in 2007 for administrative, legal and statistical purposes

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

Thermodynamics that studies a thermodynamic system as an ensemble of moving molecules, considering the macroscopic temperature as an average kinetic energy of the microscopic molecules.