statistics

Meaning

Noun

• A discipline, principally within applied mathematics, concerned with the systematic study of the collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation of data.
• 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.
• Plural of statistic

Origin

• From German Statistik, from New Latin statisticum and Italian statista. Statistik introduced by Gottfried Achenwall (1749), originally designated the analysis of data about the state.