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A mathematical science concerned with data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation.

Example: Statistics is the only mathematical field required for many social sciences.

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.

Example: The statistics from the Census for apportionment are available.

A single item in a statistical study.

A quantity calculated from the data in a sample, which characterises an important aspect in the sample (such as mean or standard deviation).

A person, or personal event, reduced to being an item of statistical information.

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