{
  "id": "statistics.data",
  "term": "statistics",
  "sense": "data",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "statistics",
  "domain": "Everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a collection of data where numbers per item are regular",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "data.information",
      "number.quantity",
      "collection.group",
      "items.object",
      "per.ratio",
      "regular.frequency"
    ],
    "interaction": "data are gathered and numbers per item are compared to reveal regular patterns",
    "novel_properties": [
      "frequency-based structure",
      "quantified regularity",
      "item-wise numerical comparison"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The U.S. Census counts every resident every ten years to update population statistics by state and county.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Large Hadron Collider records billions of particle collisions, producing statistics on decay rates of Higgs bosons.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "New York City’s subway system logs daily ridership numbers, forming statistics on usage per line and station over time.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "data.information",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "regular.frequency",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "statistics"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts from definition: collection.group, items.object, per.ratio, regular.frequency. Definition remains correct and unchanged."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-statistics.data"
}