1. A branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters
   "The company relied on statistics to make informed business decisions";
   - stats [informal]

1. (statistics) a datum that can be represented numerically
   "The mean age of the participants was an important statistic in the study"

Type of: applied math, applied mathematics, data point, datum

Encyclopedia: Statistics, Ecclesiastical