statistically

UK/stəˈtɪs.tɪ.kə.li/US/stəˈtɪs.tɪ.kə.li/

adverbB2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,203 of 15,258neutral

Statistically means according to what the collected numbers show. Statistically significant, statistically unlikely, statistically speaking.

Statistically significant is the phrase to be careful with: it means the result is unlikely to be chance, not that it is large or important. Statistically speaking is a softener that concedes the individual case may differ.

Definitions of statistically

1adverbstatisticallyAccording to what the collected numbers show.B2+
“Statistically, flying is much safer than travelling by car.”

statistically is a manner.

Where it comes from

From statistical + -ly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

statistically in the wild

A hit by pitch is not counted statistically as a walk, and therefore not counted in the strikeout-to-walk ratio.
Strikeout-to-walk ratio
A statistically improbable phrase (SIP) is a phrase or set of words that occurs more frequently in a document (or collection of documents) than in some larger corpus.
Statistically improbable phrase
Return specialists are commonly monitored statistically for their totals and averages.
Return yards
The distribution is defined to be that of a random variable defined to be the smallest of a number of statistically independent random variables having non-identical Weibull distributions.
Poly-Weibull distribution

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