n. | 1. | The science which has to do with the collection, classification, and analysis of facts of a numerical nature regarding any topic. |
2. | (Sport) Classified facts of a numerical nature regarding any topic. | |
3. | The branch of mathematics which studies methods for the calculation of probabilities. |
Noun | 1. | 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 |
(statistics, mathematics) | statistics - The practice, study or result of the
application of mathematical functions to collections of
data in order to summarise or extrapolate that data. The subject of statistics can be divided into descriptive statistics - describing data, and analytical statistics - drawing conclusions from data. |