Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
statistical analysis

statistical analysis

14 4.4
To look at numbers to find patterns and understand what they mean
  • noun
  • /stəˈtɪstɪkəl əˈnælɪsɪs/
  • Specialized
translation icon : análisis estadístico
  • A final limitation is the large number of statistical analyses conducted, thereby inflating the experiment-wise Type I error rate.
  • statistical analysis was performed
  • statistical analysis was conducted
  • using statistical analysis

Examples

  • The level of significance was set at p < 0.05 for all statistical analyses.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Tia returned to her papers, keeping a running statistical analysis and cross-tabulations on anything that seemed interesting.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Our statistical analysis saw they had neither the finance nor technology.

    GoldenEye (1995)

  • I noticed your statistical analysis of professional baseball.

    SlashFM (2022)

  • Statistical analysis is what I do.

    Get Hard (2015)

  • The small number of students limited the types of statistical analyses that could be performed.

    Academic text (2013)

  • I'd been assigned to complete a statistical analysis to validate the scheme.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • We would like to acknowledge Mark Borgstrom's contributions to the statistical analysis.

    Academic text (2013)

  • Participants' performance on Trail 5, the most difficult trail, was the only data subjected to statistical analyses.

    Academic text (2011)

  • The FAA is increasingly relying on statistical analysis instead of visual inspection to catch safety problems.

How Statistical

linear regression
  • Specialized
1 3.9
statistical analysis
  • Specialized
14 4.4
data
215 1.6
count
780 1.0

Surface Forms

statistical analysis singular
statistical analyses plural

Morphology

statistical + analysis

The meaning is directly compositional: 'statistical' specifies the type of data and 'analysis' denotes systematic examination, so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to examining numerical data. This is a common, cross-linguistically transparent Noun+Noun/Adj+Noun construction and therefore predictable for a B1 learner.

Etymology

Statistical analysis comes from two simple ideas: statistical means using numbers about a group, and analysis means carefully breaking something down to understand it. Imagine counting many answers and looking for a pattern — that picture shows why the phrase means 'examining numbers to find patterns or connections'.