“William Petty began as a physician and ended as a pioneer social statistician.”
“On that date the town council employed a municipal statistician in the town clerk's department.”
“An independent statistician prepared the randomisation envelopes using a computer based random number generator.”
statistics
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.
“During the (rare) promotion season in 2003-2004 they managed a series of results that, if it were not for a local eagle-eyed statto type, might have gone unnoticed.”
“The thing about stats, for a true statto, is that simply looking at the numbers alone is never enough.”
“During the promotion season in 2003-2004 they managed a series of results that, if it were not for a local eagle-eyed statto type, might have gone unnoticed.”