statistics
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During one torrid stretch spanning February to April, the Spurs won 27 of 29 games while Wembanyama piled up mind-bending statistics: 40 points one night, eight 3-pointers or seven blocks another.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
As of early April, refunds averaged $3,462, up from $3,116 a year ago, IRS statistics show.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026
While the statistics agency previously pulled legal services prices from the consumer price index, it switched to using PPI data in February.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
For many years after his son Frances’s death, Franklin dutifully recorded statistics on outbreaks throughout the colonies to demonstrate that smallpox acquired by inoculation was safer than that received in the “natural” way.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
In another meeting early in 1966, McNamara saw these fears put into a language that he understood well: statistics.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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Baseball: A Lexicon
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Words for the World Series
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Mathematical Modeling
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