statisticaladj.n.

Brit.

/stəˈtɪstᵻkl/, U.S.

/stəˈtɪstəkəl/

Forms: 1600s statisticall, 1700s– statistical.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: statist n.¹, -ical suffix.

Etymology: < statist n.¹ + -ical suffix. With sense 1 compare statistial adj. With sense 2 compare slightly earlier statistic adj. and discussion at that entry, and compare also statistic n., statistics n.

I. Senses to do with statecraft or data.

†1. Political. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > [adjective]

politic1427

political1529

state1579

statistial1602

statistical1602

politician1638

coalitional1785

statistic1824

1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 228 There are a hundred twise told of the like statisticall principles and practises.

†a. Of or relating to collected information about states or communities. Cf. statistics n. 1a. Obsolete except as passing into sense 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [adjective] > statistical

schematical1762

statistic1770

statistical1787

1787 Crit. Rev. 64 188 The work [by Zimmermann] before us is properly statistical. It consists of different tables, containing a general comparative view of the forces, the government, the extent and population of the different kingdoms of Europe.

1790 J. Sinclair Let. in J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. (1798) XX. App. p. xix In many parts of the Continent, more particularly in Germany, Statistical Inquiries, as they are called, have been carried to a very great extent.

1807 European Mag. June 459/2 Statistical researches were, in former ages, confined to a very small circle, and seldom..travelled far beyond the round of official routine.

1832 C. M. Goodridge Narr. Voy. South Seas (subtitle) A statistical view of Van Diemen's Land, giving its..roads and public works, unappropriate land [etc.].

1889 Pop. Sci. Monthly May 88 It required twelve and a half parts of beet-root to produce one part of grain sugar... Yet last year the statistical organ of the German Empire reports an average extraction of thirteen per cent.

b. Of or relating to the modern science of statistics; involving or based on statistics.

ΚΠ

1820 R. Smith (title) A statistical inquiry into the frequency of stone in the bladder, in Great Britain and Ireland.

1860 Year-bk. Med. 1859 (New Sydenham Soc.) 295 Statistical analysis of twenty-one lithotrity operations.

1889 H. Hollerith in B. Randell Origins Digital Computers (1973) iii. 135 For the purpose of sorting the cards according to any group of statistical items or combinations of two or more of such items, the sorting-box..is used.

1902 Biometrika 1 464 Craniometry cannot in future content itself with either the raw measurements..or graphical exhibition of correlation results, but must adopt the methods of modern statistical investigation.

1925 J. T. Jenkins Fishes Brit. Isles 137 All this statistical information has an important bearing on the vexed question of over-fishing.

1976 A. Toynbee & D. Ikeda Choose Life x. 284 Long-term observations make it possible to grasp the phenomena in terms of statistical laws of cause and effect.

2010 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 44/2 Catastrophic events at the far end of a bell curve are more likely to occur than statistical models imply.

3. Involved, employed, or interested in statistics; that deals with statistics.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [adjective] > statistical > dealing with statistics

statistical1787

1787 E. A. W. von Zimmermann Polit. Surv. Europe Pref. 5 Some respectable statistical writers.

1827 Bristol Mercury 3 Sept. 3/2 The information..is obtained from Parliamentary Returns, collected and published by the London Statistical Society.

1845 J. R. McCulloch Lit. Polit. Econ. 222 In 1832, a Statistical Department was organised in the Board of Trade for preparing, classifying, and publishing..information respecting the statistics of the United Kingdom and its dependencies.

1898 H. C. Oakley As having Nothing vii. 133 Oh, you people with the hard, statistical minds and hearts—how I hate you!

1918 Amer. Econ. Rev. 8 850 The author proves himself to be a clearheaded economist and a keen statistical analyst.

1986 T. M. Porter Rise of Statist. Thinking v. 129 His [sc. Galton's] achievements as a biological and statistical theorist were due in no small measure to the interest he took in variation for its own sake.

2009 M. Blastland & A. Dilnot Numbers Game i. 3 The true 1990 number [of centenarians in the United States] is estimated to be about 29,000, though some statistical commentators think it more likely to be about 22,000.

4. Of a branch of esp. physical science: concerned with the application of statistics to the description of phenomena in terms of the probable outcome of large numbers of events at the molecular or submolecular scale. Of a phenomenon: amenable to description in this way.Recorded earliest in statistical mechanics n. at Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > systematic knowledge, science > [adjective] > kinds of

philosophical?a1513

mixed1605

pure1605

occulta1652

applied1832

statistical1885

marine scientific1937

soft1966

1885 J. W. Gibbs in Proc. 33rd Meeting Amer. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 57 (heading) On the fundamental formula of statistical mechanics, with applications to astronomy and thermodynamics.

1900 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 617 The statistical dynamics of the distribution of the molecules.

1945 H. D. Smyth Gen. Acct. Devel. Atomic Energy Mil. Purposes ix. 102 Such effects are used in six ‘statistical’ separation methods: (1) gaseous diffusion (2) distillation... In all these ‘statistical’ methods the separation factor is small so that many stages are required.

1955 F. L. Friedman & V. F. Weisskopf in W. Pauli Niels Bohr & Devel. Physics 138 The statistical method of determining the yield of nuclear reactions gives a reasonable account of their most important features.

1962 J. Riordan Stochastic Service Syst. iii. 28 The system is said to be in statistical equilibrium... It is not without changes, for probabilities are still in question, but the probabilistic description of its behavior in time is invariant with time.

2002 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 35 246/1 The construction of models for branches of physics, like quantum physics, statistical physics, turbulence, percolation or dynamic systems.

†II. Other senses.

5. Grammar. = stative adj. 3. Also occasionally as n.: a stative verb. Obsolete. rare.Only with reference to Hindi. The usual term is stative.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > verb > [adjective] > expressing state or condition

static1846

statistical1846

stative1874

statal1924

1846 D. Forbes Hindústání Gram. 65 From the present participle are formed..Statisticals, gáte áná, ‘to come singing’; rote daurná ‘to run crying’.

1846 D. Forbes Hindústání Gram. 132 From the present participle is formed the compound verb called statistical, by using the masculine inflection of the participle together with some verb of motion.

1873 W. R. M. Holroyd Tas-hīl ul Kalām 117 In most grammars examples of so-called statistical Verbs are given.

Compounds

statistical inference n. Statistics the drawing of inferences about a population based on data taken from a sample of that population; an inference drawn in this way; the branch of statistics concerned with this procedure.

ΚΠ

1843 tr. J. G. Kohl Austria 39 I was allowed to see the lists of the patients treated during several preceding years, from which I deducted two or three statistical inferences.

1921 Q. Publ. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 17 816 We need to bear in mind the necessary limitations of statistical inference.

2008 D. J. Hand Statistics: Very Short Introd. v. 90 Over the years, statistical inference has been the subject of considerable controversy.

statistical linguistics n. the application of statistical techniques to language analysis, now typically using a large machine-readable corpus, in order to discover general principles of linguistic behaviour, stylometry, etc.

ΚΠ

1952 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 65 350 He does not dispel the old criticism of statistical linguistics which is that it always seems to be counting apples, oranges, and mudpies as if they were the same.

1975 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 41 172/1 In recent years, computers have begun to take the drudgery out of statistical linguistics.

2000 Machine Transl. 15 261 It does not hint at the explosion of energy and sophistication which has overtaken statistical linguistics in the last half of this decade.

statistical-mechanical adj. Physics involving or based on statistical mechanics.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > mechanics > [adjective] > specific

physico-mechanical1660

statistical-mechanical1908

mechanochemical1943

the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [adjective] > statistical > dealing with statistics > within specific field

vital1837

biostatical1863

biostatic1869

biostatistical1899

statistical-mechanical1908

stylometric1935

macrolinguistic1960

bibliometric1969

cliometric1974

1908 Proc. Section Sci. K. Akad. van Wetenschappen Amsterdam 11 i. 134 The statistical mechanical considerations of Boltzmann and of Gibbs are directly applicable to our problem.

1956 E. H. Hutten Lang. Mod. Physics iv. 149 This H-function may be taken as the statistical-mechanical analogue of entropy, since it exhibits a one-sided change in time.

2010 S.-T. Yan & S. Nadis Shape Inner Space xiii. 188 A century later, people were trying to devise a statistical mechanical interpretation of black holes.

statistical mechanics n. Physics (the branch of science concerned with) the description of physical phenomena in terms of a statistical treatment of the behaviour of large numbers of atoms, molecules, etc., esp. as regards the distribution of energy among them.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > mechanics > [noun] > types of mechanics generally

rational mechanics1667

statistical mechanics1885

the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > statistics > study of > within specific field

statistics1797

biostatics1851

biostatistics1865

statistical mechanics1885

Bose–Einstein statistics1928

Bose statistics1931

stylometry1945

cliometrics1960

stylometric1968

bibliometrics1969

macrolinguistics1972

1885Statistical mechanics [see sense 4].

1902 J. W. Gibbs (title) Elementary principles in statistical mechanics.

1927 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 108 433 It has..seemed worth while to reopen the discussion by examining..a quite general form of statistical mechanics of which the classical form and Einstein's and Fermi-Dirac's are special cases.

1971 Nature 13 Aug. 450/1 The most widespread opinion is that quantum mechanics can be ‘grafted’ onto the classical statistical mechanics of Boltzmann and Gibbs.

2001 R. W. Cahn Coming of Materials Sci. iii. 143 This kind of theory was complemented by the application of statistical mechanics to the understanding of the progressive misalignment of atomic moments as the temperature is raised.

statistical significance n. Science significance in terms of statistics; spec. = significance n. 3; cf. statistically significant at significant adj. 5.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > significance

statistical significance1861

significance1888

level of confidence or significance1925

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > level at which something is important

statistical significance1861

1861 Dublin Univ. Mag. Sept. 383/1 In the case of larger towns, where considerable suburban building has been going on,..the table has less statistical significance.

1916 H. D. Crampton Stud. Genus Partula: Species Inhabiting Tahiti 134 In length only are the former larger with statistical significance, where the difference exceeds thrice its error.

1938 Jrnl. Parapsychol. 2 210 The primary requirement of statistical significance is met by the results of this investigation.

1971 Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. 85 68 None of the..interactions reached statistical significance.

2011 Independent on Sunday 29 May 40 Previous studies had not satisfied the test of statistical significance, partly because there have been so few academies open for long enough.

statistical table n. Statistics a reference table of gathered statistics; spec. one giving the value of a particular function for different values of its parameters.

ΚΠ

1797 Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 6 66 The strange inconsistencies that occur in statistical tables.

1841 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. London 4 132 From a statistical table..it appears that by a recent census, the population of Portugal and Algarve does not exceed 3,224,474 souls.

1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 40/3 It needed no statistical tables to show Robert Smith that the quota of injured workmen was increasing yearly.

2004 T. Jones Business Econ. & Managerial Decision Making vi. 113 The benchmark value obtained from F distribution statistical tables.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	statistical
释义	statisticaladj.n. Brit. /stəˈtɪstᵻkl/, U.S. /stəˈtɪstəkəl/ Forms: 1600s statisticall, 1700s– statistical. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: statist n.¹, -ical suffix. Etymology: < statist n.¹ + -ical suffix. With sense 1 compare statistial adj. With sense 2 compare slightly earlier statistic adj. and discussion at that entry, and compare also statistic n., statistics n. I. Senses to do with statecraft or data. †1. Political. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > [adjective] politic1427 political1529 state1579 statistial1602 statistical1602 politician1638 coalitional1785 statistic1824 1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 228 There are a hundred twise told of the like statisticall principles and practises. 2. †a. Of or relating to collected information about states or communities. Cf. statistics n. 1a. Obsolete except as passing into sense 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [adjective] > statistical schematical1762 statistic1770 statistical1787 1787 Crit. Rev. 64 188 The work [by Zimmermann] before us is properly statistical. It consists of different tables, containing a general comparative view of the forces, the government, the extent and population of the different kingdoms of Europe. 1790 J. Sinclair Let. in J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. (1798) XX. App. p. xix In many parts of the Continent, more particularly in Germany, Statistical Inquiries, as they are called, have been carried to a very great extent. 1807 European Mag. June 459/2 Statistical researches were, in former ages, confined to a very small circle, and seldom..travelled far beyond the round of official routine. 1832 C. M. Goodridge Narr. Voy. South Seas (subtitle) A statistical view of Van Diemen's Land, giving its..roads and public works, unappropriate land [etc.]. 1889 Pop. Sci. Monthly May 88 It required twelve and a half parts of beet-root to produce one part of grain sugar... Yet last year the statistical organ of the German Empire reports an average extraction of thirteen per cent. b. Of or relating to the modern science of statistics; involving or based on statistics. ΚΠ 1820 R. Smith (title) A statistical inquiry into the frequency of stone in the bladder, in Great Britain and Ireland. 1860 Year-bk. Med. 1859 (New Sydenham Soc.) 295 Statistical analysis of twenty-one lithotrity operations. 1889 H. Hollerith in B. Randell Origins Digital Computers (1973) iii. 135 For the purpose of sorting the cards according to any group of statistical items or combinations of two or more of such items, the sorting-box..is used. 1902 Biometrika 1 464 Craniometry cannot in future content itself with either the raw measurements..or graphical exhibition of correlation results, but must adopt the methods of modern statistical investigation. 1925 J. T. Jenkins Fishes Brit. Isles 137 All this statistical information has an important bearing on the vexed question of over-fishing. 1976 A. Toynbee & D. Ikeda Choose Life x. 284 Long-term observations make it possible to grasp the phenomena in terms of statistical laws of cause and effect. 2010 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 44/2 Catastrophic events at the far end of a bell curve are more likely to occur than statistical models imply. 3. Involved, employed, or interested in statistics; that deals with statistics. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [adjective] > statistical > dealing with statistics statistical1787 1787 E. A. W. von Zimmermann Polit. Surv. Europe Pref. 5 Some respectable statistical writers. 1827 Bristol Mercury 3 Sept. 3/2 The information..is obtained from Parliamentary Returns, collected and published by the London Statistical Society. 1845 J. R. McCulloch Lit. Polit. Econ. 222 In 1832, a Statistical Department was organised in the Board of Trade for preparing, classifying, and publishing..information respecting the statistics of the United Kingdom and its dependencies. 1898 H. C. Oakley As having Nothing vii. 133 Oh, you people with the hard, statistical minds and hearts—how I hate you! 1918 Amer. Econ. Rev. 8 850 The author proves himself to be a clearheaded economist and a keen statistical analyst. 1986 T. M. Porter Rise of Statist. Thinking v. 129 His [sc. Galton's] achievements as a biological and statistical theorist were due in no small measure to the interest he took in variation for its own sake. 2009 M. Blastland & A. Dilnot Numbers Game i. 3 The true 1990 number [of centenarians in the United States] is estimated to be about 29,000, though some statistical commentators think it more likely to be about 22,000. 4. Of a branch of esp. physical science: concerned with the application of statistics to the description of phenomena in terms of the probable outcome of large numbers of events at the molecular or submolecular scale. Of a phenomenon: amenable to description in this way.Recorded earliest in statistical mechanics n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > systematic knowledge, science > [adjective] > kinds of philosophical?a1513 mixed1605 pure1605 occulta1652 applied1832 statistical1885 marine scientific1937 soft1966 1885 J. W. Gibbs in Proc. 33rd Meeting Amer. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 57 (heading) On the fundamental formula of statistical mechanics, with applications to astronomy and thermodynamics. 1900 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 617 The statistical dynamics of the distribution of the molecules. 1945 H. D. Smyth Gen. Acct. Devel. Atomic Energy Mil. Purposes ix. 102 Such effects are used in six ‘statistical’ separation methods: (1) gaseous diffusion (2) distillation... In all these ‘statistical’ methods the separation factor is small so that many stages are required. 1955 F. L. Friedman & V. F. Weisskopf in W. Pauli Niels Bohr & Devel. Physics 138 The statistical method of determining the yield of nuclear reactions gives a reasonable account of their most important features. 1962 J. Riordan Stochastic Service Syst. iii. 28 The system is said to be in statistical equilibrium... It is not without changes, for probabilities are still in question, but the probabilistic description of its behavior in time is invariant with time. 2002 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 35 246/1 The construction of models for branches of physics, like quantum physics, statistical physics, turbulence, percolation or dynamic systems. †II. Other senses. 5. Grammar. = stative adj. 3. Also occasionally as n.: a stative verb. Obsolete. rare.Only with reference to Hindi. The usual term is stative. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > verb > [adjective] > expressing state or condition static1846 statistical1846 stative1874 statal1924 1846 D. Forbes Hindústání Gram. 65 From the present participle are formed..Statisticals, gáte áná, ‘to come singing’; rote daurná ‘to run crying’. 1846 D. Forbes Hindústání Gram. 132 From the present participle is formed the compound verb called statistical, by using the masculine inflection of the participle together with some verb of motion. 1873 W. R. M. Holroyd Tas-hīl ul Kalām 117 In most grammars examples of so-called statistical Verbs are given. Compounds statistical inference n. Statistics the drawing of inferences about a population based on data taken from a sample of that population; an inference drawn in this way; the branch of statistics concerned with this procedure. ΚΠ 1843 tr. J. G. Kohl Austria 39 I was allowed to see the lists of the patients treated during several preceding years, from which I deducted two or three statistical inferences. 1921 Q. Publ. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 17 816 We need to bear in mind the necessary limitations of statistical inference. 2008 D. J. Hand Statistics: Very Short Introd. v. 90 Over the years, statistical inference has been the subject of considerable controversy. statistical linguistics n. the application of statistical techniques to language analysis, now typically using a large machine-readable corpus, in order to discover general principles of linguistic behaviour, stylometry, etc. ΚΠ 1952 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 65 350 He does not dispel the old criticism of statistical linguistics which is that it always seems to be counting apples, oranges, and mudpies as if they were the same. 1975 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 41 172/1 In recent years, computers have begun to take the drudgery out of statistical linguistics. 2000 Machine Transl. 15 261 It does not hint at the explosion of energy and sophistication which has overtaken statistical linguistics in the last half of this decade. statistical-mechanical adj. Physics involving or based on statistical mechanics. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > [adjective] > specific physico-mechanical1660 statistical-mechanical1908 mechanochemical1943 the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [adjective] > statistical > dealing with statistics > within specific field vital1837 biostatical1863 biostatic1869 biostatistical1899 statistical-mechanical1908 stylometric1935 macrolinguistic1960 bibliometric1969 cliometric1974 1908 Proc. Section Sci. K. Akad. van Wetenschappen Amsterdam 11 i. 134 The statistical mechanical considerations of Boltzmann and of Gibbs are directly applicable to our problem. 1956 E. H. Hutten Lang. Mod. Physics iv. 149 This H-function may be taken as the statistical-mechanical analogue of entropy, since it exhibits a one-sided change in time. 2010 S.-T. Yan & S. Nadis Shape Inner Space xiii. 188 A century later, people were trying to devise a statistical mechanical interpretation of black holes. statistical mechanics n. Physics (the branch of science concerned with) the description of physical phenomena in terms of a statistical treatment of the behaviour of large numbers of atoms, molecules, etc., esp. as regards the distribution of energy among them. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > [noun] > types of mechanics generally rational mechanics1667 statistical mechanics1885 the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > statistics > study of > within specific field statistics1797 biostatics1851 biostatistics1865 statistical mechanics1885 Bose–Einstein statistics1928 Bose statistics1931 stylometry1945 cliometrics1960 stylometric1968 bibliometrics1969 macrolinguistics1972 1885Statistical mechanics [see sense 4]. 1902 J. W. Gibbs (title) Elementary principles in statistical mechanics. 1927 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 108 433 It has..seemed worth while to reopen the discussion by examining..a quite general form of statistical mechanics of which the classical form and Einstein's and Fermi-Dirac's are special cases. 1971 Nature 13 Aug. 450/1 The most widespread opinion is that quantum mechanics can be ‘grafted’ onto the classical statistical mechanics of Boltzmann and Gibbs. 2001 R. W. Cahn Coming of Materials Sci. iii. 143 This kind of theory was complemented by the application of statistical mechanics to the understanding of the progressive misalignment of atomic moments as the temperature is raised. statistical significance n. Science significance in terms of statistics; spec. = significance n. 3; cf. statistically significant at significant adj. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > significance statistical significance1861 significance1888 level of confidence or significance1925 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > level at which something is important statistical significance1861 1861 Dublin Univ. Mag. Sept. 383/1 In the case of larger towns, where considerable suburban building has been going on,..the table has less statistical significance. 1916 H. D. Crampton Stud. Genus Partula: Species Inhabiting Tahiti 134 In length only are the former larger with statistical significance, where the difference exceeds thrice its error. 1938 Jrnl. Parapsychol. 2 210 The primary requirement of statistical significance is met by the results of this investigation. 1971 Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. 85 68 None of the..interactions reached statistical significance. 2011 Independent on Sunday 29 May 40 Previous studies had not satisfied the test of statistical significance, partly because there have been so few academies open for long enough. statistical table n. Statistics a reference table of gathered statistics; spec. one giving the value of a particular function for different values of its parameters. ΚΠ 1797 Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 6 66 The strange inconsistencies that occur in statistical tables. 1841 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. London 4 132 From a statistical table..it appears that by a recent census, the population of Portugal and Algarve does not exceed 3,224,474 souls. 1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 40/3 It needed no statistical tables to show Robert Smith that the quota of injured workmen was increasing yearly. 2004 T. Jones Business Econ. & Managerial Decision Making vi. 113 The benchmark value obtained from F distribution statistical tables. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1602
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