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The science which has to do with the collection and classification of certain facts respecting the condition of the people in a state.

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  1. n. The science which has to do with the collection and classification of certain facts respecting the condition of the people in a state.
  2. n. Classified facts respecting the condition of the people in a state, their health, their longevity, domestic economy, arts, property, and political strength, their resources, the state of the country, etc., or respecting any particular class or interest; especially, those facts which can be stated in numbers, or in tables of numbers, or in any tabular and classified arrangement.
  3. n. The branch of mathematics which studies methods for the calculation of probabilities.
  4. n. a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters
  5. 1. The science which has to do with the collection and classification of certain facts respecting the condition of the people in a state. Note: [In this sense gramatically singular.] 2. pl. Classified facts respecting the condition of the people in a state, their health, their longevity, domestic economy, arts, property, and political strength, their resources, the state of the country, etc., or respecting any particular class or interest; especially, those facts which can be stated in numbers, or in tables of numbers, or in any tabular and classified arrangement. The branch of mathematics which studies methods for the calculation of probabilities.
  6. Classified facts respecting the condition of the people in astate, their health, their longevity, domestic economy, arts,property, and political strength, their resources, the state of thecountry, etc., or respecting any particular class or interest;especially, those facts which can be stated in numbers, or in tablesof numbers, or in any tabular and classified arrangement.
  7. n:100 n. a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters