Difference between Statistic and Statistics

What is the difference between Statistic and Statistics?

Statistic as a noun is a single item in a statistical study. while Statistics as a noun is (singular) a mathematical science concerned with data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation.

Statistic

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A single item in a statistical study. A quantity calculated from the data in a sample, which characterises an important aspect in the sample (such as mean or standard deviation). A person, or personal event, reduced to being an item of statistical information.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of or pertaining to statistics.

Statistics

Part of speech: noun

Definition: (singular) A mathematical science concerned with data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation.(collective noun) A systematic collection of data on measurements or observations, often related to demographic information such as population counts, incomes, population counts at different ages, etc.A mathematical science concerned with data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation.

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