تعريف statistical analysis في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.
The process of examining data to draw conclusions or insights, and determine cause-and-effect patterns between events; for example determining the safety and efficacy of new drugs by drawing out a probability as to whether the fact that a patient got better (or worse) was due to the drug or some other (perhaps random) factor
interpreting numbers using numbers (for example, finding average, the number occurring most often, the number in the middle, the range of numbers or the difference between numbers)
The use of mathematical probability theory to draw inferences in situations of uncertainty (p 19)
- Mysterious, sometimes bizarre, manipulations performed upon the collected data of an experiment in order to obscure the fact that the results have no generalizable meaning for humanity Commonly, computers are used, lending an additional air of unreality to the proceedings