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Definition of Statistic
1. Noun. A datum that can be represented numerically.
Category relationships: Statistics
Specialized synonyms: Average, Norm, Demographic, Deviation, Moment, Distribution Free Statistic, Nonparametric Statistic, Parametric Statistic, Time Series, Vital Statistics
Definition of Statistic
1. a. Of or pertaining to statistics; as, statistical knowledge, statistical tabulation.
Definition of Statistic
1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of statistical) ¹
2. Noun. A single item in a statistical study. ¹
3. Noun. A quantity calculated from the data in a sample, which characterises an important aspect in the sample (such as mean or standard deviation). ¹
4. Noun. A person, or personal event, reduced to being an item of statistical information. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Statistic
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Statistic
Literary usage of Statistic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Theological Propædeutic: A General Introduction to the Study of Theology by Philip Schaff, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1893)
"Ecclesiastical Geography and statistic is a systematic view of the present
condition of ... But the statistic of to-day becomes history to-morrow. ..."
2. Statistics and Science: A Festschrift for Terry Speed by Darlene Renee Goldstein, T. P. Speed (2003)
"The relationship between the Pearson statistic and the residual deviance is
therefore the relationship between the score test and the likelihood ratio test ..."
3. Statistics in Molecular Biology and Genetics: Selected Proceedings of a 1997 by Françoise Seillier-Moiseiwitsch (1999)
"It is thus useful to have a test statistic that is very similar to ... Such a
statistic was proposed by Spielman and Ewens (1996). This statistic is W', ..."
4. Base SAS(R) 9.1.3 Procedures Guide, Second Edition, Volumes 1-4 by Sas Institute (2006)
"The FREQ Procedure To compute the correlation statistic, PROC FREQ uses the
formula for the generalized CMH statistic with the row and column scores ..."
5. Crossing Boundaries: Statistical Essays in Honor of Jack Hall by John Edward Kolassa, David Oakes, William Jackson Hall (2003)
"Introduction Froda and van Eeden [1] obtain an approximation for the two-sample
Wilcoxon statistic, W, the sum of the ranks of the first sample, ..."
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