Government statisticsindicate that prices have gone down. 政府统计指出物价已经下降。 You may consult the statistics on population issued by the government. 你可以查一查政府发表的人口统计。 the vital statistics (出生、结婚、死亡等)人口动态统计。 collect [take] statistics 进行统计。
a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters
百科解释
Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data.Dodge, Y.