statisticnoun
uk/stəˈtɪs.tɪk/us/stəˈtɪs.tɪk/statistics
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- He has all the latest statistics at his fingertips.
- It's difficult to interpret these statistics without knowing how they were obtained.
- The opposition leader accused government ministers of manipulating the statistics to suit themselves.
- The statistics reflect a change in people's spending habits.
- According to official statistics, the Japanese work longer hours than workers in most other industrialized countries.
B2 [ plural ] informal stats, information based on a study of the number of times something happens or is present, or other numerical facts:
Statistics show/suggest that women live longer than men.
According to official statistics, the Japanese work longer hours than workers in most other industrialized countries.
[ U ] the science of using information discovered from studying numbers
C1 [ C ] a fact in the form of a number that shows information about something:
The city's most shocking statistic is its high infant mortality rate.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Statistics
- actuarial
- actuary
- entropy
- even
- index
- interquartile range
- mean
- median
- odds
- pollster
- ratio
- stat
- statistical
- statistician
- stochastic
- variate
- vital statistics