STATISTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does statistic mean? 

• STATISTIC (noun)
  The noun STATISTIC has 1 sense:

1. a datum that can be represented numerically

  Familiarity information: STATISTIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STATISTIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A datum that can be represented numerically

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("statistic" is a kind of...):

data point; datum (an item of factual information derived from measurement or research)

Domain category:

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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "statistic"):

average; norm (a statistic describing the location of a distribution)

demographic (a statistic characterizing human populations (or segments of human populations broken down by age or sex or income etc.))

deviation (the difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function)

moment (the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value)

distribution free statistic; nonparametric statistic (a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn)

parametric statistic (any statistic computed by procedures that assume the data were drawn from a particular distribution)

time series (a series of values of a variable at successive times)

vital statistics (data relating to births and deaths and health and diseases and marriages)

 Context examples 

Health statistics are numbers about some aspect of health.

(Health Statistics, NIH)

In Brazil, statistics reveal that a baby dies every 30 seconds from complications arising from a preterm birth.

(Early birth main cause of child death in Brazil, Agência Brasil)

A statistic which assigns a single number to several individual statistics in order to quantify trends and evaluate a value or quantity as compared with a standard or a base value.

(Index Value, NCI Thesaurus)

The mosquito-borne illness killed over 400,000 in 2015, according the most recent statistics from the World Health Organization.

(The Dog's Nose Knows Malaria, Kevin Enochs/VOA)

This distribution is often used in inferential statistics in tests of significance.

(Chi-Square Distribution, NCI Thesaurus)

A computer program that uses statistics to predict a person’s risk for developing breast cancer based on family history.

(Claus model, NCI Dictionary)

A computer program that uses statistics to predict whether a person has an inherited mutation (change) in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.

(BRCAPro, NCI Dictionary)

Information may come from many sources, including patient statistics, tissue specimens, genetics research, and clinical trials.

(Bioinformatics, NCI Dictionary)

A part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the NCHS is the primary Federal organization responsible for the collection, analyses, and dissemination of health statistics.

(National Center for Health Statistics, NCI Thesaurus)

The goodness of fit statistic for the terminal elimination phase, adjusted for the number of time points used in the estimation of Lambda z.

(Adjusted R Squared, NCI Thesaurus)