Definition of "statistics" []

• The mathematics of the collection, organization, and interpretation of numerical data, especially the analysis of population characteristics by inference from sampling. (noun)
• Numerical data. (noun)

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• "One of the first things you learn in statistics is never extrapolate beyond the data."
• "Lumbering, which occupies a department of production by itself in statistics, is also to a great extent a manufacturing operation."
• "Perhaps the most telling of all of his statistics is his scoring average."