statistic

Academic Word List, sublist 4.

About 2.94 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Alternative form of statistical.
2. noun A single item in a statistical study.
3. noun A quantity calculated from the data in a sample, which characterises an important aspect in the sample (such as mean or standard deviation).
4. noun A person, or personal event, reduced to being an item of statistical information.

   By dying from an overdose, he became just another statistic.

5. verb To analyze or describe using statistics.
6. verb To cite or calculate statistics.
7. verb To comprise (as statistics)

Similar words

figure statistical number stats numeral figures data statistically digit percentage

Often followed by

is for that of and in to was has

Word family

statistical statistically statistician statisticians statistics