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For Wiktionary’s statistics, see Wiktionary:Statistics and Special:Statistics

English

Wikibooks

Alternative forms

• statisticks (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??t?st?ks/

Etymology 1

From German Statistik, from New Latin statisticum (“of the state”) and Italian statista (“statesman, politician”). Statistik introduced by Gottfried Achenwall (1749), originally designated the analysis of data about the state.

Noun

statistics (uncountable)

1. A discipline, principally within applied mathematics, concerned with the systematic study of the collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation of data.
   • 1972, Leonard J. Savage, The Foundations of Statistics, Dover, page 1,

     As for statistics, the foundations include, on any interpretation of which I have ever heard, the foundations of probability, as controversial a subject as one could name. As in other sciences, controversies over the foundations of statistics reflect themselves to some extent in everyday practice, nut not nearly so catastrophically as one might imagine. […] It is hard to judge, however, to what extent the relative calm of modern statistics is due to its domination by a vigorous school relatively well agreed within itself about the foundations.

   • 2004, David C. LeBlanc, Statistics: Concepts and Applications for Science, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, page 61,

     The application of statistics in the process of science can be divided into three parts: (1) obtaining data (experiment and sampling design), (2) summarizing and describing data (exploratory data analysis, descriptive statistics), and (3) using data from samples and experiments to make estimates and test competing hypotheses about the universe (inferential statistics).

Usage notes

• Within mathematics, the term statistics usually refers to mathematical statistics.

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See also

• Appendix:Glossary of probability and statistics

Etymology 2

Noun

statistics pl (plural only)

1. A systematic collection of data on measurements or observations, often related to demographic information such as population counts, incomes, population counts at different ages, etc.
   • 1996, Ron C. Mittelhammer, Mathematical Statistics for Economics and Business, Springer, page 389,

     Sufficient statistics for a given estimation problem are a collection of statistics or, equivalently, a collection of functions of the random sample, that summarize or represent all of the information in a random sample that is useful for estimating any ${\displaystyle {\textbf {q}}(\!{\boldsymbol {\Theta }}\!)}$.

   Synonym: (informal) stats

Translations

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

statistics

1. plural of statistic

English

Etymology

From Latin attributus past participle of attribuere.

Pronunciation

Noun

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æt??bju?t/
• (General American) enPR: ??tr?-byo?ot', IPA^(key): /?æt????bjut/
• Rhymes: -æt??bju?t
• Hyphenation: at?tri?bute

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??t??bju?t/
• (General American) enPR: ?-tr??byo?ot', IPA^(key): /??t???bjut/
• Rhymes: -?bju?t
• Hyphenation: at?trib?ute

Noun

attribute (plural attributes)

1. A characteristic or quality of a thing.

   His finest attribute is his kindness.

2. An object that is considered typical of someone or some function, in particular as an artistic convention.

3. (grammar) A word that qualifies a noun, a qualifier.

   In the clause "My jacket is more expensive than yours", "My" is the attribute of "jacket".

4. (logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
5. (computing, object-oriented programming) An option or setting belonging to some object.

   This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero.

   A file with the read-only attribute set cannot be overwritten.

6. (programming) A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.

   Properties can be marked as obsolete with an attribute, which will cause the compiler to generate a warning if they are used.

   • 2003, Peter Drayton, Ben Albahari, Ted Neward, C# in a Nutshell (page 536)

     This attribute is used to declare in metadata that the attributed method or class requires SocketPermission of the declared form.

7. (computer graphics, dated) A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display.
   • 1987, Marcus Berkmann, Sceptre Of Bagdad (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 17

     […] you can only carry two objects, your attributes clash when you walk past multi-coloured objects and your enemies fly up and down from the ceiling.

   • 1989, PC: The Independent Guide to IBM Personal Computers

     If any of the video buffer's background attribute bits are on, MONO converts the attribute to 70h (inverse video).

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:characteristic

Derived terms

Related terms

• attributive

Translations

Verb

attribute (third-person singular simple present attributes, present participle attributing, simple past and past participle attributed)

1. To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.
2. To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.

   This poem is attributed to Browning.

   • 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious

     We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it.

   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 278:

     H?kim's atypical actions should not be attributed to Islam as much as to insanity, which eventually led him to proclaim himself as Allah, whereupon he was murdered by outraged fellow Muslims.

Conjugation

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Further reading

• attribute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• attribute in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• ribattute

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /at.tri?bu?.te/, [ät?????bu?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /at.tri?bu.te/, [?t???i?bu?t??]

Adjective

attrib?te

1. vocative masculine singular of attrib?tus