statisticize

present singular third person statisticizes · participle present statisticizing · participle past statisticized · past statisticized · alternative statisticise

1. transitiveTo make statistical; to apply statistical methods to; to cause to rely on statistics.

   We can give you passing yardage if you want to talk quarterbacks, or earned-run average if you want to talk pitchers, or goals and assists if you want to talk hockey players, but, alas, professional football linemen, especially on the offensive side of the table, are not easily statisticized.

   1992 October, Steve Buckley, “Boss Hog: Jim Lachey is the best offensive lineman in football playing on the best team in football”, in Sport, volume 83, number 10, →ISSN, page 63

2. intransitiveTo use or collect statistics.

   Many courses are given to aspiring scientists as introductory statistics or biometrics introducing elementary statistical methodology. The objective, however, is not to help budding statisticians to statisticize but to help experimental scientists to experiment properly.

   1971 April 30, “Research by Experiment”, in Nature, volume 230, number 5296, →DOI, page 602