How do you use Statistics in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Statistics meaning
A discipline, principally within applied mathematics, concerned with the systematic study of the collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation of data.
Synonyms of Statistics
Using Statistics
- The main meaning on this page is: A discipline, principally within applied mathematics, concerned with the systematic study of the collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation of data.
- Useful related words include: applied mathematics, applied math.
- In the example corpus, statistics often appears in combinations such as: the statistics, of statistics, national statistics.
Context around Statistics
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 12 start, 5 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Statistics
- In this selection, "statistics" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, economics, economic, official, released, nbs and authority stand out and add context to how "statistics" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aggregate court statistics backlog statistics, amongst the statistics released were, national statistics, statistics office and crime statistics. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "statistics" sits close to words such as sentenced, judges and currency, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with statistics
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
These are statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). (10 words)
Akunu S. Meyase, Secretary, Economics & Statistics along with Senior Officers of the Department of Economics & Statistics on September 10. (19 words)
And so, we came upon the -- because before I've been using just the aggregate court statistics, backlog, statistics, and so on. (22 words)
To determine the most iconic job in every state, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed data on employment by state for all detailed occupations from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Wage and Employment Statistics survey for May 2022. (38 words)
Then you try to argue data (like New York still having three times as many deaths per capita), people accuse Florida of covering up statistics, even though these "covered up" statistics are still about 50% worse than California. (38 words)
Estimates are not unusual in economic statistics and the Scottish Government confirmed the Gers report “has been assessed by the UK Statistics Authority as being produced in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics”. (36 words)
Peter Obi often reels out statistics during his campaign and interviews and some people are saying he’s given to statistics rather than reality, do you think he can engage both strata of the society? (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Estimates are not unusual in economic statistics and the Scottish Government confirmed the Gers report “has been assessed by the UK Statistics Authority as being produced in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics”.
According to Doughton, “these statistics are some evidence of potential discrimination,” but statistics alone are not enough to prove that Kenerly acted with the intent of discrimination.
Amongst the statistics released were 79 alcohol-fuelled serious assaults, which was an increase of three more than 2019, the last pre-covid statistics.
And so, we came upon the -- because before I've been using just the aggregate court statistics, backlog, statistics, and so on.
Both Democrats and Republicans agree that the statistics do not reveal the intent of the trooper and cannot determine whether some of the incorrect statistics were made by human error.
Peter Obi often reels out statistics during his campaign and interviews and some people are saying he’s given to statistics rather than reality, do you think he can engage both strata of the society?
The census data was released by the Office for Statistics as part of analysis of the statistics from the March 2021 survey.
These are statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
To determine the most iconic job in every state, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed data on employment by state for all detailed occupations from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Wage and Employment Statistics survey for May 2022.
Akunu S. Meyase, Secretary, Economics & Statistics along with Senior Officers of the Department of Economics & Statistics on September 10.
There are no recorded statistics for the young people battling cancer in this Southern African nation, but the Zimbabwe National Cancer Registry’s latest statistics show that 7,841 new cancer cases were diagnosed in 2018.
In the past, Census only added uncertainty to select statistics with a high risk for deanonymization to avoid adding so much noise that the statistics become unreliable.
It explained why the matter was important as the council served as “an important role-player in endorsing statistics released by Statistics South Africa”.
On the subject of America's crime statistics, the current administration has done nothing to restore the famous Table 42 in the Bureau of Justice Statistics website.
Statistics provide information about how to manage and assess the numbers and without statistics and mathematics knowledge an individual cannot perform with numbers.
The government review of how coronavirus statistics are calculated and their non-publication is a clear example, in my view, of trying to massage the statistics and lower them.
The ministry announced the statistics in a press release based on a survey carried out by the Strategy and Statistics Directorate (DDS).
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) conducted a monthly survey of hotel statistics to determine hotel bed occupancy rate in December last year, which showed that the occupancy rate was some 53.8 percent.
The National Statistics Office publishes, on a quarterly basis, another set of statistics on employment and unemployment based on the Labour Force Survey (LFS).
Then you try to argue data (like New York still having three times as many deaths per capita), people accuse Florida of covering up statistics, even though these "covered up" statistics are still about 50% worse than California.
Phrases with statistics
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with statistics
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the statistics 24×
- of statistics 22×
- national statistics 18×
- statistics and 16×
- statistics for 12×
- statistics office 9×
- statistics are 8×
- to statistics 7×
- statistics from 7×
- labor statistics 7×