statistic

Noun
  1. A datum that can be represented numerically (synset 106030848)
    referred to in: 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
    is a type of: data point, datum - an item of factual information derived from measurement or research
    subtypes:
    • 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

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