noun (plural) · academic
statistics
/stəˈtɪs.tɪks/sta·TIS·tics
Band 5-6speakingtask1task2
numbers or facts collected and analysed; the subject that studies collecting and interpreting numbers
Examples
“National statistics show a steady rise in urban population.”
“She is studying statistics at university.”
“The course teaches basic statistics for analysing surveys.”
Band 8 sentence
“When you read journal articles, pay attention to the statistics—raw numbers can be misleading without the method explained.”
Collocations
- official statistics
- statistics show
- statistics on
Word family
statistic noun (singular)statistical adjectivestatistically adverb
Common mistakes
many statistic→many statistics
a statistics→a statistic
statistics is→statistics are
Say it for a higher band
5numbers→6figures→7+statistics
Synonyms
figures
numbers
Easily confused
figure
“The figure shows the proportion of students who commute to school.”
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