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statistics

sta.tis.tics \st*-'tis-tiks\ n [G statistik study of political facts and 
   figures, fr. NL statisticus)] pl but sing or pl in constrX of politics, fr. 
   L status state 1: a branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, 
   analysis, interpret ation, and presentation of masses of numerical data 2: 
   a collection of quantitative data