Sentence examples for statistics statistics from inspiring English sources

"OFFICIALS produce statistics; statistics produce officials," goes a neat Chinese saying, referring to the propensity of China's cadres to use falsified data to seek promotion.

Water transport parameters are at present dominated by port statistics, statistics of inland water transport and the operations of ferries in ocean and coastal waters especially in Lagos and Niger delta areas of the country.

The number of male and female births in the general Danish population was available from published statistics (Statistics Denmark, 1997).

Mean birth weight and length were, according to the parents, within normal ranges (Norwegian birth statistics, Statistics Norway) in both groups.

While descriptive statistics may always be used (unless the data are too sparse), the employment of inferential statistics – statistics calculated from a study sample in order to make generalizations about a larger study target population – is not always appropriate.

The DREAM database contains pooled data from all relevant Danish ministries, all Danish municipalities and the national bureau of statistics (Statistics Denmark) since July 1991 and the database has been found suitable for public health research.

The valuation of resources (see Table  3) was based on the costs of equipment for the Kalmar county council primary care Swedish wage statistics (Statistics Sweden) and some standards (e.g. costs for a meeting room).

Corresponding to the classification of statistical thoughts in statistics, the statistical models and methods of ALT can be classified into descriptive statistics, parametric statistics, nonparametric statistics, and Bayesian statistics [9, 10].

The subscript v on the statistic abbreviations distinguishes the statistics as volume prediction statistics.

Four statistical paradigms discussed are: classical statistics or error statistics, Bayesian statistics, likelihood-based statistics, and the Akaikean-Information Criterion-based statistics.

Statistical analyses were performed using statistics software (IBM SPSS statistics, version 20, Chicago, IL, USA).