The phrase "a basis for statistics" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing foundational elements or underlying principles that support statistical analysis or data interpretation.
Example: "The survey results provide a basis for statistics that will inform our marketing strategy moving forward."
Alternatives: "a foundation for statistics" or "a framework for statistics".
Statistics from 2003 are not included as rates are incompatible due to the implementation of a new basis for statistics, and a marked reorganization of the home care units (from 21 to 11 units).
Then, the weighted sample mean is used to serve as a basis for parameter estimates and test statistics for a general linear regression model.
That puts India's 24,000 reported rape cases in 2011 in some sort of perspective, though the basis for statistics varies in different countries and India's real total is almost certainly enormously higher because the fear of police and social harassment and indifference means many incidents go unreported.
Here again, statistics provides a basis for the conceptual analysis of causal relations.
Most word alignment systems use co-occurrence statistics as a basis for making decisions about correspondences.
Those statistics are then used as a basis for decision-making regarding wireless coexistence.
The turbulence statistics of high speed jets provide a basis for modelling the source mechanisms responsible for noise generation.
This chapter opens with a discussion on the ocean environment, especially with respect to wave, current and wind statistics, in deep and shallow waters, as a basis for the determination of environmental loads for structural design.
The paper suggests that progress in monitoring depends on establishing a conceptual model as a basis for design of appropriate indicators featuring the characteristics of cadastres and land registration systems combined with upgraded statistics reporting on property data.
Our method has the potential to identify novel associated genes; provide a basis for selecting SNPs for replication; and be directly used in network (pathway) approaches that require per-gene association test statistics.
