Statistic

noun

Word Frequency: 2.9

Definitions

1.nounA single item in a statistical study.

2.nounA quantity calculated from the data in a sample, which characterises an important aspect in the sample (such as mean or standard deviation).

3.nounA person, or personal event, reduced to being an item of statistical information.

"By dying from an overdose, he became just another statistic."

4.adjectiveOf or pertaining to statistics.

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