資料來源 : pyDict
統計,統計數字
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.
資料來源 : WordNet®
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
資料來源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
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.
(1997-07-16)