Adjective
Of or pertaining to statistics; as, statistical knowledge, statistical tabulation.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. Hannah Arendt
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. Richard Dawkins
I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity. George Gallup
There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe. Robert A. Heinlein
Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith. Ursula K. Le Guin
We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries as a branch of rational mechanics. Josiah Willard Gibbs