meaning of statistics

1. The science which has to do with the collection and classification of certain facts respecting the condition of the people in a state.
2. Classified facts respecting the condition of the people in a state, their health, their longevity, domestic economy, arts, property, and political strength, their resources, the state of the country, etc. , or respecting any particular class or interest; especially, those facts which can be stated in numbers, or in tables of numbers, or in any tabular and classified arrangement.
3. The branch of mathematics which studies methods for the calculation of probabilities.
4. statistics mathematics> The practice, study or result of the application of mathematical functions to collections of data in order to summarise or extrapolate that data. The subject of statistics can be divided into descriptive statistics - describing data, and analytical statistics - drawing conclusions from data.
5. a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters

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