Hypertext Webster Gateway: "statistics"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Statistics \Sta*tis"tics\, n. [Cf. F. statistique, G. statistik.
See {State}, n.]
1. The science which has to do with the collection and
classification of certain facts respecting the condition
of the people in a state.
Note: [In this sense gramatically singular.]
2. pl. 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
statistics
n : a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the
collection and interpretation of quantitative data and
the use of probability theory to estimate population
parameters
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