sample vs statistics

sample and statistics both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sample	Yes	No	Yes	No
statistics	Yes	No	No	No

sample (noun)	statistics (noun)
a small part of something intended as representative of the whole	a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters
items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population
all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class

sample (verb)	statistics (verb)
take a sample of