Definition of statistics
- n. - The science which has to do with the collection and
classification of certain facts respecting the condition of the people
in a state.
- n. - Classified facts respecting the condition of the people
in a state, their health, their longevity, domestic economy, arts,
property, and political strength, their resources, the state of the
country, etc., or respecting any particular class or interest;
especially, those facts which can be stated in numbers, or in tables of
numbers, or in any tabular and classified arrangement.
- n. - The branch of mathematics which studies methods for the
calculation of probabilities.