statistic : Idioms & Phrases

• noun (physics) statistical law obeyed by a system of particles whose wave function is not changed when two particles are interchanged (the Pauli exclusion principle does not apply)
  

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• noun the agency in the Department of Justice that is the primary source of criminal justice statistics for federal and local policy makers
  BJS.
  

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• noun a statistical relation between two or more variables such that systematic changes in the value of one variable are accompanied by systematic changes in the other
  correlation.
  

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• noun a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn
  nonparametric statistic; distribution free statistic.
  

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• noun (physics) law obeyed by a systems of particles whose wave function changes when two particles are interchanged (the Pauli exclusion principle applies)
  

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• noun a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn
  nonparametric statistic; distribution free statistic.
  

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• noun the branch of statistics dealing with variables without making assumptions about the form or the parameters of their distribution
  
• noun a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn
  nonparametric statistic; distribution free statistic.
  

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• noun any statistic computed by procedures that assume the data were drawn from a particular distribution
  

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• noun data relating to births and deaths and health and diseases and marriages
  

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• statistics respecting the duration of life, and the circumstances affecting its duration.

Webster 1913