How to Use statistical in a Sentence

statistical

adjective
  • The Aztecs piled up statistical wins all over the sheet.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Utah ranks in the lower third of the conference in most statistical categories in all three phases of the game.
    Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 5 May 2023
  • Anne of Green Gables is an anomaly, The Adversary is a statistical truth.
    Hazlitt, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The race is currently locked in a statistical tie, with most recent polls giving a slight edge to Milei.
    David Unsworth, Fox News, 17 Nov. 2023
  • There were mistakes, sure, but as a whole, the passing game did look a lot better from a statistical standpoint.
    Matt Cohen | McOhen@al.com, al, 16 Sep. 2023
  • But this season is, so far, the best statistical campaign of his career.
    Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
  • In the study, the team used sports-analysis and statistical software to compare videos and still-frames of chimpanzees and small monkeys called mangabeys climbing in the wild.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Indeed, the ugly numbers that once marred Stone’s statistical slate have long been wiped clean.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The study found no statistical similarities among the people who shared the same star sign.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Although some statistical reports show that 300 hours is the average study time, for some, this will be too much, and for others, not enough.
    Bryce Welker, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Duke is on a 10 game win streak, but Tennessee has the slight statistical advantage.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 17 Mar. 2023
  • But with only five floats in the Fiesta warehouse, the statistical sample is small.
    Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2023
  • The statistical landslide appeared to eliminate the need for a rematch, but the contract gave the losing fighter the option to trigger one.
    Morgan Campbell, New York Times, 30 July 2023
  • Despite its higher statistical success, Jeon said, the bank shot isn’t easy to master.
    John Yoon, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • There’s been the occasional statistical blip—like when Gen Z drivers recently triggered a slight sales bump—but the stick shift is on the way out.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Besides shooting a ball into the basket and scoring more points than the other team, there are other statistical components that have grown the game over the years.
    USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
  • Perry, who played a statistical analyst on the show, was known for his sarcasm and witty one-liners.
    Antonio Planas, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The increase was because of a statistical anomaly, Christoph Weil, a senior economist at Commerzbank, wrote in a note.
    Anna Cooban, CNN, 30 June 2023
  • At one end of the array, an electronic scroll shows alarming statistical nuggets about the status of women worldwide.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Factoring in a bevy of such statistical likelihoods, GiveWell now finds that $4,500 will save one person.
    Leif Wenar, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Anthropic maintains that its A.I. uses a vast body of work, of which lyrics are one small element, to build a statistical model of the way language functions.
    John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
  • In hypothetical head-to-head races, the survey showed Biden in statistical ties with all of them -- with one notable exception.
    Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Tuesday’s data offer the first statistical snapshot of how the wind-down of such programs has begun reshaping the country.
    Kyle Swenson and Amy Goldstein, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Erb told them the statistical chances of becoming pregnant in one cycle through IVF was about 50 percent for women under 35.
    Susan Young, Peoplemag, 8 July 2023
  • Meanwhile, a feature called Field Goal Target Zones overlays multiple lines on the field that show the statistical likelihoods that a kicker will make a field goal.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Although statistical forecasts are easy to run, they are limited by the inherent chaos of the weather system.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Tennessee enters the Sweet 16 with the best defense in the country according to Ken Pomeroy’s efficiency ratings, which is by far the best statistical group in this game.
    J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • For a player so skilled at getting to the basket, that seems like a statistical anomaly that's interesting solely in the moment, and will be long forgotten in just a few weeks.
    Morten Stig Jensen, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • To go beyond this, graduate to more statistical analysis tools like Tableau or R to help with your analysis.
    Max Koziolek, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • During his first two years as a Patriot, Folk was one of the most accurate kickers in the league, registering the best statistical seasons of his career.
    Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023

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