inductive statistics

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noun (used with a singular verb)

the branch of statistics dealing with conclusions, generalizations, predictions, and estimations based on data from samples.

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Also called inferential statistics .

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So however detailed the statistics of the battlefield are, they cannot achieve the goal.
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A hard look at campus rape statistics, the collapse of The New Republic and the day John Lennon died.
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What is much more important than these numbers is an internal dynamic for which there are no statistics.
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In fact, what this map really showed was the fallacy of aggregates – and how statistics can mask real cultural shifts.
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In the face of those statistics, these two non-indictments are glaring.
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Gottfried Achenwall, an eminent German lecturer on statistics, history and the laws of nature, died at Gttingen.
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He published several volumes on political economy, and was much interested in statistics.
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Well pleased was Mr. Wainwright to see that statistics took my fancy.
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These statistics were of much practical use when considering questions of economy and other matters from day to day.
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I was soon surprised to find that I too had a taste for statistics and acquired some skill in their compilation.
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