statistics vs sample

statistics and sample both are nouns.

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

statistics (noun)	sample (noun)
a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters	a small part of something intended as representative of the whole
	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

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