In a sentence
Six example sentences with statistics, each labelled with its topic.
A term of statistics teaches doctors why a drug that helps eight volunteers may still fail in a much larger trial.
Medicine
Statistics turned the sport upside down once teams learned to weigh shot location and possession count instead of raw point totals.
Basketball
Without statistics the survey is just anecdotes, since nothing tells you whether the gap between the two towns could be chance.
Economics
A year of statistics is compulsory for psychology students, since a finding means nothing without a test of chance.
Psychology
Pollsters lean on statistics to turn a thousand phone calls into a guess about forty million voters.
Politics
Traders trained in statistics look for patterns in price data and then check whether the pattern could be noise.
Finance
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