Metric vs. Statistic — What's the Difference?

Of or relating to the metric system of measurement.

A statistic (singular) or sample statistic is any quantity computed from values in a sample which is considered for a statistical purpose. Statistical purposes include estimating a population parameter, describing a sample, or evaluating a hypothesis.

(music) Of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.

A fact or piece of data obtained from a study of a large quantity of numerical data

Of or relating to distance.

Another term for statistical

A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering).

A numerical piece of information.

(mathematics) A function for the measurement of the "distance" between two points in some metric space: it is a real-valued function d(x,y) between points x and y satisfying the following properties: (1) "non-negativity": $d(x,y)\; \backslash ge\; 0$, (2) "identity of indiscernibles": $d(x,y)\; =\; 0\; \backslash mbox\{\; iff\; \}\; x=y$, (3) "symmetry": $d(x,y)\; =\; d(y,x)$, and (4) "triangle inequality": $d(x,y)\; \backslash le\; d(x,z)\; +\; d(z,y)$.

A calculated numerical value (such as the sample mean) that characterizes some aspect of a sample set of data, and that is often meant to estimate the true value of a corresponding parameter (such as the population mean) in an underlying population.

(mathematics) A metric tensor.

One viewed solely as a piece of statistical or numerical information

Abbreviation of metric system

Alternative form of statistical

To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process.

A single item in a statistical study.

Relating to measurement; involving, or proceeding by, measurement.

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

Of or pertaining to the meter as a standard of measurement; of or pertaining to the decimal system of measurement of which a meter is the unit; as, the metric system; a metric measurement.

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

A function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them

Of or pertaining to statistics; as, statistical knowledge; statistical tabulation.

A decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds);

A datum that can be represented numerically

A system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic

Based on the meter as a standard of measurement;

The rhythmic arrangement of syllables