statistical
Such results are statistically improbable.
Women pay lower motor insurance premiums because statistically they are less likely to have an accident.
Statistically, you're supposed to be earning your highest income as you get older.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Statistics
actuarial
actuary
analysis of covariance
background variable
canonical correlation
categorical variable
correction factor
correlation coefficient
covariance matrix
covariate
cross-sectional
entropy
infant mortality rate
interpoint
interquartile range
multigroup
non-statistical
pollster
statistician
stochastic

statistically | Business English

statistically
adverb
uk /stəˈtɪstɪkli/us
in a way that relates to statistics:
statistically significant/insignificantThe job increases were below the number that Labor Department economists view as statistically significant.
statistically valid/reliableThe data pool is too small to be statistically reliable.

Examples of statistically

statistically
Qualitative and quantitative measures of the business environment are statistically strongly and significantly correlated with respect to their effects on business performance (ibid.).
For the maize yield and net returns equations, the estimated coefficients of the farm size variables were statistically different between the adopters and non-adopters.
Variables that were not statistically significant at conventional levels were not removed from the model.
Also, the median income in a district is not a statistically significant predictor in any of these models appearing in these tables.
Although all tended to be more common early on, none of these trends was statistically significant.
It is unclear whether this is a statistically supported observation.
Note, however, that only the coefficients for the latter two variables are statistically different from zero.
Effect modification by age category and season was statistically tested by adding this variable and its first-order interaction term to the final model.
Finally, we found a modest time trend towards lower prices, but the trend was not statistically significant.
When summarizing cost data, mean costs are preferred to medians, and uncertainty should be analyzed statistically and with sensitivity analysis.
A higher percentage of cohabiting people received care from the cohabitee in 2002/03, although the difference was statistically insignificant.
The differences, while statistically significant, are generally trivial (for example, the means on the democratic values index are 3.35 in 1996 and 3.27 in 1998).
As a result, counting every language as a variable would have produced statistically unreliable results.
Interestingly non-adopters reported a much greater (but not statistically significant) level of income from non-cotton crops compared to adopters.
Statistically, the mean scores for these two age groups, in all four levels of meaning, were not significantly different between the two samples.
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