The singular statistics is the science of collection, presentation, analysis and interpretation of numerical data. The plural statistics refers to numerical facts or observations collected with a …

2013年7月30日 · There's not enough context to make a recommendation about the technical meaning. A common topic in statistics is a test of significance, or significance level, but these …

This topic has been covered at Language Log (see here and here).In summary, people tend to use "most" to mean anything over 50%; some people feel it should only be used in sense C (a …

Accumulative means having the characteristic of tending to accumulate. Cumulative means having built up or accumulated over time. E.g. something has a cumulative effect, or is a …

Neglect can be both deliberate and unconscious. I would argue it would depend on the context of the neglect. It was the closest single word I could think to define the OP. To make the cause of …

Not only the includedness or otherwise of your bounds is problematic (though that is a matter of definition). Most mathematicians would ask you to define which set of numbers you are talking …

2011年5月17日 · When watching medical television shows, I often hear the doctors (actors) using the term "stat", which I understand to mean "do [action] quickly/immediately". Where did this …

2015年6月27日 · +1, I like that this is the first answer to address the multiple Unicode code points involved. However, I think you might mention that regardless of the characters' names or …

2012年12月8日 · @user541686: Merriam-Webster seems to take the opposite view: that retrogress(ive) applies to a one-off situation where backward figurative movement—whether …

2011年8月11日 · I understand the use of circa / c. as it applies to approximating dates. However, I have a writer who (over)uses the word in other contexts. Examples: ... from circa early 1990s …