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- 1. the practice or science of collecting and analysing numerical data in large quantities, especially for the purpose of inferring proportions in a whole from those in a representative sample: "standard error is a mathematical tool used in statistics to measure variability"
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1. The word statistics is used both as singular and as plural. The singular statistics is the science of collection, presentation, analysis and interpretation of numerical data. The plural statistics refers to numerical facts or observations collected with a definite purpose. Statistics in this sense have the following characteristics:
May 17, 2011 · 1875 — W. H. Griffiths Lessons on Prescriptions iv. 18: "Stat., immediately." 1971 — Lancet 25 Sept. 700/2: "Stat., to be given at once." The word stat is an abbreviation of the Latin word statim, which has the meaning "instantly/immediately". This usage was then generalized beyond the domain of prescriptions to refer to any action that ...
Dec 8, 2012 · When I look up the definitions I see the definition for regress is "to return to a previous, usually worse or less developed state", whereas the definition for retrogress is "to go back to an earlier, esp worse, condition". They both look the same to me: antonyms of "progress".
Nov 15, 2012 · Yes, the correct usage is that 100% increase is the same as a two-fold increase. The reason is that when using percentages we are referring to the difference between the final amount and the initial amount as a fraction (or percent) of the original amount.
I came across the word “comparator” in the report of International Monetary Fund under the title, “Can women save Japan?” (WP/12/248) co-authored by Chad Steinberg and Masao Nakane “Japan has FLP ...
In summary, people tend to use "most" to mean anything over 50%; some people feel it should only be used in sense C (a comfortable majority), but it is also used in sense A (a plurality). The context might make it clear which meaning is intended, or else it might simply be ambiguous. Example:
For discrete objects such as finite lists of integers, "between" typically by default conveys inclusivity of the min- and max- imum. For one-word twosided exclusivity (i.e., not including the endpoints, as in open intervals of continuous data ranges such as a segment of the number-line), you could swap 'between' for 'inbetween'. – 11qq00.
It has both the physical landscape similarity (low-lying, flat) and the connotation that finding it on a chart yields (stagnant, encumbered, unable to grow/change). – Digital Chris. Apr 8, 2014 at 17:35. @Argot I suppose I didn't establish the connection; this is related to stats because I want to talk of "a flat bottom on the data graph" in ...
Mar 24, 2015 · This is a question Statistics professors ask within the first hour of Statistics 101. Possibility vs Probability vs Likelihood. Then the professor would give an interesting story and then he would leave it at a cliff-hanger and say that the rest of story will follow over the course of the next couple of semesters.
6. Plausible is referred to an explanation, an argument, or a statement, while possible is referred to a fact, or an event. For example, my explanation on how in future time traveling will be possible could be plausible, but that doesn't mean traveling through time will be possible. Highly active question.
