statistics

  1. Noun.  (context, singular in construction) A mathematical science concerned with data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation.
  2. Noun.  (context, plural in construction) 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.
  3. Noun.  (plural of, statistic) .

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