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 statistics
2 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