| 单词 | statistics |
| 释义 | statistics (once / 387 pages) n Statistics is a branch of mathematics that allows you to draw conclusions about a large group of people based on information collected from a smaller group. It's also a tough college math course. Say an Australian study reports that 45% of fifteen-year-old Australians like grape soda. The people who conducted that study didn't interview 45% of Australian fifteen-year-olds; they interviewed perhaps a fraction of the Australian fifteen-year-old population and based their conclusions about the entire population on that. This is the essence of statistics, and the uncertainty surrounding such studies is one reason why people who practice statistics have to take tough college courses. WORD FAMILYstatistics: statistic, statistical, statistician+/statistical: statistically/statistician: statisticians USAGE EXAMPLESBharambe, for his part, argues that Mumbai’s collision statistics look worse than other Indian cities because the Mumbai police are better at recording accidents. The Guardian(Jan 03, 2017) Kay said the statistics used by Leapfrog are reported on a daily basis. Washington Times(Jan 03, 2017) For those of us who pay attention to economic statistics, Mr. Obama walked into the worst economic crisis in recent history. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) n a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters Hypo|Hyper correlation, correlational statistics a statistical relation between two or more variables such that systematic changes in the value of one variable are accompanied by systematic changes in the other nonparametric statisticsthe branch of statistics dealing with variables without making assumptions about the form or the parameters of their distribution biometrics, biometry, biostatisticsa branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations by means of statistical analysis curvilinear correlation, nonlinear correlation, skew correlationany correlation in which the rates of change of the variables is not constant partial correlationa correlation between two variables when the effects of one or more related variables are removed direct correlation, positive correlationa correlation in which large values of one variable are associated with large values of the other and small with small; the correlation coefficient is between 0 and +1 indirect correlation, negative correlationa correlation in which large values of one variable are associated with small values of the other; the correlation coefficient is between 0 and -1 spurious correlationa correlation between two variables (e.g., between the number of electric motors in the home and grades at school) that does not result from any direct relation between them (buying electric motors will not raise grades) but from their relation to other variables applied math, applied mathematics the branches of mathematics that are involved in the study of the physical or biological or sociological world |
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