a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters | the act of populating (causing to live in a place) |
| (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn |
| the people who inhabit a territory or state |
| a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area |
| the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.) |