statistic
[stuh-tis-tik]
- a numerical fact or datum, especially one computed from a sample.
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Origin of statistic
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Contemporary Examples
Breaking the will of ISIS, the military argues, is not a statistic.
That statistic is based on a survey that includes attempted forced kissing as sexual assault.
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.
Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story quoted a statistic that The Daily Beast could not verify.
Historical Examples
Whether nebulæ are found rarely or often in squint, depends in great measure on the statistic materials which are worked out.
Schweigger on SquintC. Schweigger
At night it is counted and entered on a statistic sheet, under the same heads.
Every statement was substantiated, every statistic verified with Genslinger's meticulous love for exactness.
The OctopusFrank Norris
But now it's a statistic that the soup is getting thicker, and I can't figure out why.
Masters of SpaceEdward Elmer Smith
How many never know how close they come to making their mistake, or being a statistic in somebody else's?
Fee of the FrontierHorace Brown Fyfe
statistic
- any function of a number of random variables, usually identically distributed, that may be used to estimate a population parameterSee also sampling statistic, estimator (def. 2), parameter (def. 3)
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Word Origin and History for statistic
n.
"quantitative fact or statement," 1880; see statistics.
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