What do you mean by ‘statistics?
ORIGIN
The word statistics ultimately derives from the term statisticum collegiums ("council of state") and the Italian word statista ("statesman or "politician. The German Statistik, first introduced by Gottfried Ache wall (1749), originally designated the analysis of data about the state. It acquired the meaning of the collection and classification of data generally in the early nineteenth century. It was introduced into English by Sinclair Thus; the original principal purpose of statistics was data to be used by governmental and (often centralized) administrative bodies. The collection of data about states and localities continues, largely through national and international statistical services; in particular, censuses provide regular information about the population Today, however, the use of statistics has broadened far beyond the service of a state or government, to include such areas as business, natural and social sciences, and medicine, among others.
