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1. [countable usually plural] a collection of numbers that represent facts or measurements:
• Statistics show that 35% of new businesses fail in their first year.
• the October employment statistics
— statistical adjective :• There is no statistical evidence that the economy is recovering.
— statistically adverb :• The results were not statistically significant.
2. statistics [plural] the branch of mathematics that studies facts and information represented by a collection of numbers:• The course includes mechanics, statistics, and computer science.
3. [singular] a single number that represents a fact or measurement:• Annual sales per employee have jumped about 37% , which is a statistic we feel very good about.
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statistically UK US /stəˈtɪstɪkli/ adverb► in a way that relates to statistics: statistically significant/insignificant »The job increases were below the number that Labor Department economists view as statistically significant.
statistically valid/reliable »The data pool is too small to be statistically reliable.
Financial and business terms. 2012.