Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or employing statistics or the principles of statistics.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to statistics; consisting of facts and calculations or such matters: as, statistical tables; statistical information.
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- adjective of or pertaining to
statistics
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- adjective of or relating to statistics
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Examples
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Then there’s the statistical error factor ie if 8% is the result and the ‘’statistical” error factor is 3% then the real result could be 11% or as low as 5% hardly a significant number.
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The studies that have been done either show opposite or conflicting results or don't achieve what we call statistical significance.
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The Tigers are not what you call a statistical juggernaut.
SI.com 2009
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Now, I would have to do some research to put that in statistical terms, but I would bet that that is a huge variance!
Safe Investing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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A quick college course in statistical analysis would cure you of your, uh, pardon the harshness, IGNORANCE.
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You realize, of course, that any decent statistician can identify and label errors in statistical manipulations that are inserted willfully to present an analysis with a gamed conclusion.
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For one, I think policymakers are already too caught up in statistical projections as it is – (did you know the OMB is the most powerful agency in DC?).
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He also rails against the Big Bang and the use of imaginary time in statistical physics, but that does not mean he understands either astrophysics or thermodynamics.
Berlinski's Wisdom 2010
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Imaginary time is not an "absurd scheme", it is by now a familiar concept in statistical physics of quantum systems, no more controversial than complex numbers in electrical engineering.
A Trend? 2009
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A quick college course in statistical analysis would cure you of your, uh, pardon the harshness, IGNORANCE.
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