STATISTICS in a Sentence

Learn STATISTICS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

48 example sentences for STATISTICS, such as:

1. The deadly statistical clock very hollow.
2. They were doing some type of statistical analysis.
3. The report contains a great deal of statistical information.
4. Sophisticated statistical analysis was employed to obtain these results.
5. The difference between the two samples was not statistically significant.

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 Meanings and Examples of STATISTICS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
statistics
 n.  a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data
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.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
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.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  Most of them were in offices all day, and thought more in card-catalogues or statistics than in mass and color.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
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.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
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.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
6  English statistics prove the fact that four thefts out of five in London have hunger for their immediate cause.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
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.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
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
9  The actions of men are subject to general immutable laws expressed in statistics.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VIII
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.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER XII
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.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV
12  The deadly statistical clock very hollow.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV
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.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 101. The Decanter.
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.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
16  In economics, a mirage is a naturally occurring phenomenon in which economic statistics are bent to produce an image of a desired outcome.
17  Potential recruits will be encouraged to use an online tool to test their motivational profile and will be enticed by statistics claiming more than one thousand different jobs in the army across one hundred and forty different trades.
18  Sophisticated statistical analysis was employed to obtain these results.
19  They were doing some type of statistical analysis.
20  Given data which are free from bias there are further snares to avoid in statistical work.
21  The report contains a great deal of statistical information.
22  We now realize that much of Burt's research was presented with a statistical sleight of hand.
23  Like you, I am a consultant, but my area of speciality is adoption of competitive strategies based on statistical and scientific thinking.
24  We have studied the statistical mechanics of money circulation in a closed economic system.
25  The statistical methodology adopted for the ranking gives each business school a unique score.
26  That may be a statistical aberration, but even over a longer period of time the steep drop in the labor force since 2008 has not reversed itself.
27  Does that mean that the well-known and often-quoted statistic of 50% of all marriages end in divorce is no longer true?
28  The Census Bureau maintains this site, linking to each state's main statistic site.
29  Children from an underprivileged family background are statistically more likely to become involved in crime.
30  The difference between the two samples was not statistically significant.