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What Does Statistic Mean?

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    A number used to rate something comparatively
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    Aries36 

    answered 8 months ago

      The word 'statistics' which come from the Latin word status, meaning a political state, originally meant information useful to the state. In the first place, the word statistics refers to ''numerical facts systematically arranged''. In this sense, word is always used in plural. In second place, the word statistics is defined as a discipline that includes procedures and techniques used to collect, process and analyze numerical data. Thirdly, the word statistics are numerical quantities calculated from sample observations. Moreover, the mean of a sample is a statistic.
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      Amber22 

      answered 8 months ago

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