STATISTIC
Dictionary entry overview: What does statistic mean?
• STATISTIC (noun)
The noun STATISTIC has 1 sense:
1. a datum that can be represented numerically
Familiarity information: STATISTIC used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• STATISTIC (noun)
Meaning:
A datum that can be represented numerically
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("statistic" is a kind of...):
data point; datum (an item of factual information derived from measurement or research)
Domain category:
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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "statistic"):
average; norm (a statistic describing the location of a distribution)
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)
