A science dealing with the collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of masses of numerical data. A collection of quantitative data.
Statistics denotes a body of methods for reaching conclusions from data.
Health Statistics Plan, Fiscal Year 1976-77. A Guide to Information Sources. Gale Research Company, 1980. The Government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.