statistic
a numerical fact or datum, especially one computed from a sample.
Origin of statistic
1Other words from statistic
- non·sta·tis·tic, adjective
- un·sta·tis·tic, adjective
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Five content promotion strategies SaaS marketers should implement today | Izabelle Hundrev | August 28, 2020 | Search Engine WatchThe biggest statistic you should be looking for is the number of backlinks and their growth.
Content marketing fails: How to analyze and improve | Michael Doer | August 27, 2020 | Search Engine WatchThere had been plenty of earlier games that replicated baseball and other sports — dice games, board games, even games with statistics.
The Economics of Sports Gambling (Ep. 388 Rebroadcast) | Stephen J. Dubner | August 20, 2020 | FreakonomicsThere’s this belief that it’s all about statistics and correlations.
The Deck Is Not Rigged: Poker and the Limits of AI | Maria Konnikova | August 7, 2020 | Singularity HubHe’s also played all nine of the Yankees’ games so far, maybe the most important statistic of all, and that has him on an early pace for nearly 7 WAR per 162 team games.
The Yankees Finally Have The Dynamic Duo They Wanted | Neil Paine (neil.paine@fivethirtyeight.com) | August 4, 2020 | FiveThirtyEight
Breaking the will of ISIS, the military argues, is not a statistic.
Pentagon Doesn’t Know How Many People It’s Killed in the ISIS War | Nancy A. Youssef | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThat statistic is based on a survey that includes attempted forced kissing as sexual assault.
The new headline number for American wine drinking is, for example, easily turned into another misleading statistic.
Rich Lowry, editor of the conservative National Review, called that statistic “bogus.”
The “one in five” statistic is frequently cited by advocates of sexual assault awareness.
How many never know how close they come to making their mistake, or being a statistic in somebody else's?
Fee of the Frontier | Horace Brown FyfeThis Extract will make a convenient statistic reference for matters concerning Liberia.
Whether nebulæ are found rarely or often in squint, depends in great measure on the statistic materials which are worked out.
Schweigger on Squint | C. SchweiggerEvery statement was substantiated, every statistic verified with Genslinger's meticulous love for exactness.
The Octopus | Frank NorrisBeneath all the play of logic and statistic beats the passion of a mighty human heart.
The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States | Benjamin Brawley
British Dictionary definitions for statistic
/ (stəˈtɪstɪk) /
any function of a number of random variables, usually identically distributed, that may be used to estimate a population parameter: See also sampling statistic, estimator (def. 2), parameter (def. 3)
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