statistic | | |
n. (cognition) | 1. statistic | a datum that can be represented numerically. |
| ~ data point, datum | an item of factual information derived from measurement or research. |
| ~ statistics | a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters. |
| ~ average, norm | a statistic describing the location of a distribution.; "it set the norm for American homes" |
| ~ demographic | a statistic characterizing human populations (or segments of human populations broken down by age or sex or income etc.). |
| ~ deviation | the difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function. |
| ~ moment | the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value. |
| ~ distribution free statistic, nonparametric statistic | a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn. |
| ~ parametric statistic | any statistic computed by procedures that assume the data were drawn from a particular distribution. |
| ~ time series | a series of values of a variable at successive times. |
| ~ vital statistics | data relating to births and deaths and health and diseases and marriages. |
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