Statistics vs. Statistical — 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.

Of, relating to, or employing statistics or the principles of statistics.

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.

Of or pertaining to statistics.

(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.

Of or relating to statistics;

(used with a pl. verb) Numerical data.

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

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

Classified facts of a numerical nature regarding any topic.

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

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