Tilastisen

Tilastisen is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective tilastinen, meaning “statistical” or “relating to statistics.” In Finnish, adjectives agree with the noun they modify in number, case, and definiteness, so tilastisen appears in the genitive singular before a noun. It is used to denote possession or association with statistical information, data, or analyses, as in tilastisen tiedon perusteella (based on statistical data) or tilastisen aineiston analyysi (analysis of the statistical dataset).

Although tilastinen conveys the same general idea as the more common tilastollinen, tilastisen is primarily encountered as a case form within noun phrases rather than as a standalone headword. The standard term for “statistical” in most contemporary Finnish texts is tilastollinen, with its own well-established set of inflected forms; tilastisen may appear in contexts that require the genitive singular form of tilastinen or its close derivations.

Common usage includes technical writing, reports, and academic prose where precise grammatical agreement is important. For example, phrases like tilastisen tutkimuksen tulokset (the results of the statistical study) or tilastisen tiedon luotettavuus (the reliability of statistical information) illustrate its function within sentences.

Etymology links tilastisen to tilasto, meaning statistics or statistical data, through the suffix -inen, which forms adjectives. Related terms include tilastollinen (statistical), tilasto (statistics), and tilastotiede (statistics as a discipline).