statistic

Back-formation from statistics.

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statistic (comparative more statistic, superlative most statistic)

1. Alternative form of statistical

statistic (plural statistics)

1. A single item in a statistical study.
2. A quantity calculated from the data in a sample, which characterises an important aspect in the sample (such as mean or standard deviation).
3. A person, or personal event, reduced to being an item of statistical information.

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

• (person, reduced to item of information): number

• See also Thesaurus:statistic

• statistically
• statistician

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statistic m pl

1. plural of statistich

Borrowed from French statistique and German statistisch.

• IPA^(key): /staˈtis.tik/

statistic m or n (feminine singular statistică, masculine plural statistici, feminine and neuter plural statistice)

1. statistic, statistical

• statistică