# statistics

Pronunciation: say "stuh-TIS-tiks" /stəˈtɪstɪks/

## Noun

1. Numerical facts or figures collected about something, such as population counts, incomes or accident rates.
   - Simple: Numbers and facts collected about something, such as how many people live in a place.
   - _The census bureau released its annual statistics on household income._
   - _Health statistics from the region revealed a sharp drop in infant mortality._
2. A branch of applied mathematics concerned with collecting, presenting, analyzing, and interpreting data.
   - Simple: The study of how to collect, organize, and understand numbers and facts.
   - _He teaches statistics to first-year economics students._
   - _Modern statistics relies heavily on computer software to process large datasets._

## Origin

From German Statistik, in turn from New Latin statisticum ("of the state") and Italian statista ("statesman"). The term was used by Gottfried Achenwall in the 1740s and originally referred to the analysis of data about the state.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/statistics (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).