Wiktionary
n. The process of examining data to draw conclusions or insights, and determine cause-and-effect patterns between events; for example determining the safety and efficacy of new drugs by drawing out a probability as to whether the fact that a patient got better (or worse) was due to the drug or some other (perhaps random) factor.
Usage examples of "statistical analysis".
The embodied computer's internal processing unit, with a clock rate of eighteen attoseconds, could query the ship's data bank through the attached neural cable and perform a full statistical analysis while the humans were still trying to read the list.
For the first time in history scientists are marrying the insights of artists, poets, dramatists, and novelists to statistical analysis and operational research.
Neither assumption can be verified as of this writing, but the first assumption is strongly supported by statistical analysis of the list of names supplied by Subject of previously unsuspected members of Howard kin group, which analysis also supports Subject's estimate of total size of group, and second assumption when taken negatively postulates that star group holding Search Object has been able to apply it with no social-space of contact, an absurdity.
Bey Wolf ignored him until a final and irrefutable statistical analysis came back on the display screen.
David Drumlin gave an extraordinarily capable discussion of a statistical analysis he had recently performed of all previous pages of the Message that referred to the new numbered diagrams.
Are you trying to get us to believe that you were actually running a statistical analysis on each and every single one of those message decrypts?
Although four trials did not allow statistical analysis, the relation hit one in the face.
Everyone felt that way about his work, of course, but in the case of statistical analysis it was true.
In my world, statistical analysis established the norm, and the analysts did the correction—.
Neither assumption can be verified as of this writing, but the first assumption is strongly supported by statistical analysis of the list of names supplied by Subject of previously unsuspected members of Howard kin group, which analysis also supports Subject’.
Using that same method of statistical analysis, you can demonstrate that the likelihood of a universe emerging which could eventually produce intelligent human life on Earth is every bit as far-fetched.
He could guess that the southerner did a lot of statistical analysis, desktop publishing, and even desktop video production.