Statistics vs. Facts — What's the Difference?

Statistics is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a scientific, industrial, or social problem, it is conventional to begin with a statistical population or a statistical model to be studied.

Knowledge or information based on real occurrences

The practice or science of collecting and analysing numerical data in large quantities, especially for the purpose of inferring proportions in a whole from those in a representative sample.

Something demonstrated to exist or known to have existed

(used with a sing. verb) The mathematics of the collection, organization, and interpretation of numerical data, especially the analysis of population characteristics by inference from sampling.

A real occurrence; an event

(used with a pl. verb) Numerical data.

Something believed to be true or real

A discipline, principally within applied mathematics, concerned with the systematic study of the collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation of data.

A thing that has been done, especially a crime

The science which has to do with the collection, classification, and analysis of facts of a numerical nature regarding any topic.

(Law) A conclusion drawn by a judge or jury from the evidence in a case

Classified facts of a numerical nature regarding any topic.

Plural of fact

The branch of mathematics which studies methods for the calculation of probabilities.

(Internet slang) Used to express agreement.

A branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters