|
Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY! |
|
Home -
Quote Topics -
Quote Keywords -
Author Types -
Author Nationalities
Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
|
|
|
|
|
Definition of Statistics |
|
|
Statistics
The science which has to do with the collection and classification of certain facts respecting the condition of the people in a state. Classified facts respecting the condition of the people in a state, their health, their longevity, domestic economy, arts, property, and political strength, their resources, the state of the country, etc., or respecting any particular class or interest; especially, those facts which can be stated in numbers, or in tables of numbers, or in any tabular and classified arrangement. The branch of mathematics which studies methods for the calculation of probabilities. Related Definitions: And, Any, Arrangement, Be, Branch, Calculation, Can, Certain, Class, Classification, Classified, Collection, Condition, Country, Do, Domestic, Economy, Especially, For, Health, Has, In, Interest, Longevity, Mathematics, Numbers, Of, Or, Particular, People, Political, Probabilities, Property, Respecting, Science, State, Stated, Strength, Studies, Tabular, The, Their, Those, To, Which, With |
|
|
Statistics Quotations
There are lies, damned lies and statistics. Mark Twain Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics. Bill James Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive. George Bernard Shaw Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. Mark Twain There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Benjamin Disraeli |
|
Statistics Translations
statistics in Dutch is statistiek statistics in French is statistique statistics in German is Statistik statistics in Hungarian is statisztika, statisztikai adatok statistics in Swedish is statistik |
|
|
|
|
Quotes
RSS Feeds
|
|