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A statistical fact, statement, or piece of data. Cf. statistics, n. 3.
As a mathematically defined quantity divorced from any concept of news or meaning (see quots. 1925, 1928, 1948, 1948); spec. one which represents…
A quantitative fact or statement; = statistic, n. 3a. Cf. the earlier stats, n. 2.