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- 1. the practice or science of collecting and analysing numerical data in large quantities, especially for the purpose of inferring proportions in a whole from those in a representative sample: "standard error is a mathematical tool used in statistics to measure variability"
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1. The word statistics is used both as singular and as plural. The singular statistics is the science of collection, presentation, analysis and interpretation of numerical data. The plural statistics refers to numerical facts or observations collected with a definite purpose. Statistics in this sense have the following characteristics:
May 17, 2011 · 1875 — W. H. Griffiths Lessons on Prescriptions iv. 18: "Stat., immediately." 1971 — Lancet 25 Sept. 700/2: "Stat., to be given at once." The word stat is an abbreviation of the Latin word statim, which has the meaning "instantly/immediately". This usage was then generalized beyond the domain of prescriptions to refer to any action that ...
I came across the word “comparator” in the report of International Monetary Fund under the title, “Can women save Japan?” (WP/12/248) co-authored by Chad Steinberg and Masao Nakane “Japan has FLP ...
Nov 15, 2012 · Yes, the correct usage is that 100% increase is the same as a two-fold increase. The reason is that when using percentages we are referring to the difference between the final amount and the initial amount as a fraction (or percent) of the original amount.
The essential feature is the difference is between ‘as much as’ and ‘more than’. ‘As much as’ indicates a ratio; ‘more than’ indicates a difference. ‘More than’ means ‘added to the base’. This essential difference is ignored by those who say that ‘times’ is dominant so that ‘three times as much’ is really the ...
It has both the physical landscape similarity (low-lying, flat) and the connotation that finding it on a chart yields (stagnant, encumbered, unable to grow/change). – Digital Chris. Apr 8, 2014 at 17:35. @Argot I suppose I didn't establish the connection; this is related to stats because I want to talk of "a flat bottom on the data graph" in ...
For discrete objects such as finite lists of integers, "between" typically by default conveys inclusivity of the min- and max- imum. For one-word twosided exclusivity (i.e., not including the endpoints, as in open intervals of continuous data ranges such as a segment of the number-line), you could swap 'between' for 'inbetween'. – 11qq00.
Feb 11, 2011 · In statistics, the meaning of orthogonal as unrelated (or more precisely uncorrelated) is very directly related to the mathematical definition. [Two vectors x and y are called orthogonal if the projection of x in the direction of y (or vice-versa) is zero; this is geometrically the same as being at right angles.]
Dec 8, 2012 · If I hav really grasped the meaning of the prefixes; re and retro, I will say and use regress to mean moving in the same circular path instead of fresh new path, whereas retrogress would mean moving backwards to a lower or less developed or less efficacious path / state. Share. Improve this answer. Follow.
This is intended as a clarification of the "correctness" of using data as a mass noun, for those strict-minded sticklers (there's plenty of them) who might be unconvinced by Kosmonaut's "languages borrow words and do whatever they want with them":
