noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
accident rates/statistics
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There is a relation between accident rates and the numbers of drivers on the road.
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a survey of the latest airline accident statistics
crime figures/statistics
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The new crime figures are not good.
unemployment figures/statistics
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They publish monthly unemployment figures for the UK.
vital statistics
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
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The short, bitter election campaign is dominated by some unexpectedly useful economic statistics and a serious Tory gaffe over immigration.
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Revisions to economic growth statistics for prior periods were not immediately available.
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The term can cover economic statistics and political news as well as military information.
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For one thing, government economic statistics have fallen victim to the fiscal paralysis in Washington.
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Macro-\#economic statistics can conceal growing inequalities within countries.
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This should induce students to be more skeptical about economic statistics in general.
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If a single economic statistic can be blamed for the recent slide towards panic it is the balance of payments figures.
federal
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The new categories will be used in all federal statistics by 2003.
national
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In terms of national employment statistics the short-term loss would be limited.
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The national income, too, is hard to calculate exactly in the frequent absence of reliable national statistics .
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Fewer people are marrying and fewer divorcing, according to the office for national statistics .
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But merely examining national poverty statistics is not sufficient to understand the depth of poverty in the United States.
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Its figures are based on computer modelling techniques to predict the consequences of policies before they show up in national statistics .
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Those who are familiar with the national statistics can not question that the test results in Florida are probably correct.
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The office for national statistics blamed the drop on the foot and mouth outbreak.
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The same trend is reflected in national statistics , which show homicide rates rising fastest among those 15 to 19 years old.
official
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Drug users account for most of the cases, according to official statistics .
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And many more workers are joining the unemployment lines because of permanent job loss rather than temporary layoffs, official statistics show.
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Yet it is instantly available, unlike official statistics that are always out of date.
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Police believe the epidemic, as academic experts refer to it, is far worse than the official statistics suggest.
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The only place where official statistics have been released for industrial accidents is Shenzhen.
vital
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You're in the right place to catch up on all the vital statistics in the competition so far.
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That process involves matching voter files with change-of-address forms and Arizona vital statistics .
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Often they put the most vital statistics on big boards out in front of the unit, for the competition to see.
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The vital statistics: 271 pages, $ 22. 95, Masters Press.
■ NOUN
crime
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It said the annual crime statistics due out this month were expected to show a 19 % rise in violent crime.
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They agree about the seriousness of the crime statistics and the importance of full disclosure.
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The Anti-Defamation League has compiled hate crime statistics from law enforcement throughout the county and recorded 413 incidents from 1992-94.
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The stress is on police presence. Crime statistics are measured every day and officers quickly are deployed before problems grow.
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They say that crime statistics have fallen among nearly all age groups nationwide.
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At that meeting on July 10, the board was stunned by an independent audit of four years of crime statistics .
government
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Official government statistics , for example, show that Hong Kong residents had invested $ 2 billion in California as of 1994.
test
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The likelihood ratio test statistic shown above is a formalization of this.
■ VERB
accord
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The number of bankrupt individuals is growing, according to statistics from the Department of Trade and Industry.
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Each year, seven of those killings were motivated by domestic violence, according to police statistics .
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Drug users account for most of the cases, according to official statistics .
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At least not according to your statistics .
become
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He would have become just another abortion statistic , and speaks almost bitterly of having his' own downtrodden minority.
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Some have given up, to become another pitiful statistic among the year's 100,000 repossessions.
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The episode would never have become more than a statistic in a communique, but for the nationality of the victorious pilot.
cite
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Lacy cited statistics indicating his daughter was among about 110 innocent youths killed in Alameda County in the past three years.
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Center officials cite even more grim statistics .
keep
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In 1983, bonuses had been so rare that the bureau did not even keep statistics on the number.
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Those numbers are in keeping with most statistics oil the risks of weight-loss surgery.
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The California Highway Patrol, which keeps traffic statistics , does not record information on cellular phone use.
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Critics might say that neural networks just do a good job of keeping statistics .
show
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Its figures are based on computer modelling techniques to predict the consequences of policies before they show up in national statistics .
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What shows up in the statistics as fringe benefits is really a private social welfare payment from the young to the old.
use
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Vasquez used Police Department statistics to make her point.
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It covers such ground as Education, Sexuality, Population and Possessions, using various statistics and polls.
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Statistical process control is a technology that uses statistics to monitor the steps in a process, often a manufacturing process.
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The new categories will be used in all federal statistics by 2003.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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According to the statistics, eight people die each day waiting for a transplant.
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Again, it is the doctor's decision that produces the statistic .
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Bradman's statistics tell us he was more than 50 per cent better than anybody else.
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For one thing, government economic statistics have fallen victim to the fiscal paralysis in Washington.
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He kept his pencil sharp for statistics and watched churches grow in number from 119 in 1777 to 325 in 1795.
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That whatever the statistics may say about the way the economy is improving, for many people life remains a real struggle.
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We have no reliable statistics on the extent of child abuse and neglect.