Main Entry:

sta·tis·tic

Pronunciation:

\stə-ˈtis-tik\

Function:

noun

Etymology:

singular of statistics

Date:

1880

1: a single term or datum in a collection of statistics2 a: a quantity (as the mean of a sample) that is computed from a sample ; specifically : estimate 3b b: a random variable that takes on the possible values of a statistic