STATISTICS in a Sentence
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48 example sentences for STATISTICS, such as:
1. The deadly statistical clock very hollow.
2. The statistics don't reveal of course unrecorded crime.
3. I'd like to kick off the discussion with a few statistics.
4. The statistics reflect a change in people's spending habits.
5. The bald statistics tell us nothing about the underlying trends.
2. The statistics don't reveal of course unrecorded crime.
3. I'd like to kick off the discussion with a few statistics.
4. The statistics reflect a change in people's spending habits.
5. The bald statistics tell us nothing about the underlying trends.
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Meanings and Examples of STATISTICS
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statistics
n. a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters
Classic Sentence:
1 She listened respectably to statistics on Dickens, Thackeray, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Scott, Hardy, Lamb, De Quincey, and Mrs. Humphry Ward, who, it seemed, constituted the writers of English Fiction and Essays.
2 She had the neophyte's shock of discovery that, outside of tracts, conservatives do not tremble and find no answer when an iconoclast turns on them, but retort with agility and confusing statistics.
3 Most of them were in offices all day, and thought more in card-catalogues or statistics than in mass and color.
4 There are learned people who can tell you out of the statistics that beef-boners make forty cents an hour, but, perhaps, these people have never looked into a beef-boner's hands.
5 Jokubas had recently been reading a newspaper article which was full of statistics such as that, and he was very proud as he repeated them and made his guests cry out with wonder.
6 English statistics prove the fact that four thefts out of five in London have hunger for their immediate cause.
7 The reader will have no difficulty in understanding that Javert was the terror of that whole class which the annual statistics of the Ministry of Justice designates under the rubric, Vagrants.
8 Henceforth these beings belonged to the statistics as "Abandoned children," whom the police take note of, collect, mislay and find again on the pavements of Paris.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
9 The actions of men are subject to general immutable laws expressed in statistics.
10 And yet the former history continues to be studied side by side with the laws of statistics, geography, political economy, comparative philology, and geology, which directly contradict its assumptions.
11 To this Observatory, then: a stern room, with a deadly statistical clock in it, which measured every second with a beat like a rap upon a coffin-lid; Louisa repaired on the appointed morning.
12 The deadly statistical clock very hollow.
13 The deadly statistical recorder in the Gradgrind observatory knocked every second on the head as it was born, and buried it with his accustomed regularity.
14 Most statistical tables are parchingly dry in the reading; not so in the present case, however, where the reader is flooded with whole pipes, barrels, quarts, and gills of good gin and good cheer.
15 Besides this, the system of assessing property in the country districts of Georgia is somewhat antiquated and of uncertain statistical value; there are no assessors, and each man makes a sworn return to a tax-receiver.
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1 Officials admit the actual number of AIDS victims is much higher than statistics reflect.
2 Although not essential, some prior knowledge of statistics is desirable.
3 The statistics don't reveal of course unrecorded crime.
4 And still the row rumbles on over who is to blame for the steadily surging crime statistics.
5 The degree provides a thorough grounding in both mathematics and statistics.
6 It's difficult to interpret these statistics without knowing how they were obtained.
7 I'd like to kick off the discussion with a few statistics.
8 Government statistics show the largest drop in industrial output for ten years.
9 Latest statistics suggest the North/South divide is becoming even more pronounced.
10 The most striking feature of those statistics is the high proportion of suicides.
11 It's not easy to disentangle the truth from the official statistics.
12 They were unable to produce any statistics to verify their claims.
13 In two to three weeks, Ehrlich said, the Commerce Department plans publish statistics on durable goods orders and construction spending.
14 The statistics reflect a change in people's spending habits.
15 The bald statistics tell us nothing about the underlying trends.