statistic

adj

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of statistical.

noun

1. A single item in a statistical study.
2. A quantity calculated from the data in a sample, which characterises an important aspect in the sample (such as mean or standard deviation).
3. A person, or personal event, reduced to being an item of statistical information.

   “By dying from an overdose, he became just another statistic.”

verb

1. (transitive)To analyze or describe using statistics.

   “This is the only subject in the world which has not been statisticked, which is another proof of scientific neglect by the investigators.”

   “When you get us all neatly docketed and statisticked, where will you put me?”

   “Statisticked, are thirty other estates, ranging from that of a Mr. Morrison who has only one house, one garage, 65 stables, 2 kennels, 480 cattle, and 1250 acres, to the little hideaway of William Woodward which boasts 29 houses, 90 horses, 100 cattle, one tennis court, 26 vehicles, and 2200 acres.”

   “The proposals can be broken down to easily understood issues, they may be developed, illustrated, "statisticked,” to whatever point is necessary.”

   “The direct empirical knowledge of these circumstances, available to individuals involved in production, cannot be quantified, statisticked or otherwise frozen for the central planner's use.”

2. (intransitive)To cite or calculate statistics.

   “When a fellow quits statisticking for a while, they say, "Oh, haven't you one more statistic?””

   “I ran into what to me is the most horrible statistic I have ever run into in some thirty-five years of statisticking.”

   “A lot of books about the Rape of the Land have shouted or wheedled or statisticked at us.”

   “Some substitute for negative evidence, such as counting, and statisticking, is required.”

3. (transitive)To comprise (as statistics)

   “The afternoon game was pitched by Walter Johnson and was the start of the sixteen-game winning streak which statisticked that one in Boston, four in St. Louis, four in Chicago, four in Detroit, three in Cleveland and none for the little boy who lives down the lane.”