The phrase "abstract statistic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a statistic that is not tied to a specific instance or example, often used in discussions about data analysis or research findings.
Example: "The abstract statistic indicates a general trend in consumer behavior over the past decade."
Alternatives: "general statistic" or "theoretical statistic".
At Eaves, a domestic violence charity based in London, this number is no abstract statistic.
For politicians and ordinary consumers in the United States and Europe, the massive and growing trade deficit between China and the West is a worrying but abstract statistic that periodically makes headlines or provides political fodder for those worried about China's rise.
It was not until Amy's husband called that an abstract statistic became a personal reality.
For the rest of the country the woman who died remained abstract, just another statistic in a part of the country closer to Jakarta than Canberra.
Abbreviations: CI Confidence interval, DAD Discharge abstract database, K Kappa statistic, NACRS National ambulatory care reporting system, PPV Positive predictive value, RAI-HC Resident assessment instrument – home care.
Abbreviations: CI Confidence interval, DAD Discharge abstract database, K Kappa statistic, NACRS National ambulatory care reporting system, PPV Positive predictive value, RAI-MH Resident assessment instrument – mental health.
Abbreviations: CI Confidence interval, DAD Discharge abstract database, K Kappa statistic, NACRS National ambulatory care reporting system, PPV Positive predictive value, RAI 2.0 Resident assessment instrument version 2.0.
Not many people value abstract life perceived as a statistic as much as the actual child being fed, hugged, nurtured and played with.
Diane Coyle traces the history of this artificial, abstract, complex, but exceedingly important statistic from its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century precursors through its invention in the 1940s and its postwar golden age, and then through the Great Crash up to today.
We determined inter-rater agreement for chart abstraction by calculating the kappa statistic for the subgroup of charts abstracted by two investigators.
Just very saddening and discouraging and upsetting news that made these statistic, which are very abstract in themselves, extremely concrete.
