Tilastollisen

Tilastollisen is the genitive singular form of the Finnish adjective tilastollinen, meaning statistical or pertaining to statistics. It is used to modify a noun in the genitive case, for example tilastollisen tutkimuksen (of statistical research) or tilastollisen aineiston (of the statistical dataset). The basic form of the adjective is tilastollinen, while other cases follow Finnish declension rules for -llinen adjectives. The adverbial form is tilastollisesti.

Etymology and meaning: tilastollinen is derived from tilasto, meaning statistics, together with the common Finnish adjectival suffix -llinen, producing a term that denotes relation to statistics. In Finnish academic and professional language, tilastollinen broadly covers methods, analyses, data, and results related to statistical study.

Usage: Tilastollinen is widely used across disciplines such as tilastotiede (statistics), sociology, economics, and data science to describe data, methods, or conclusions that are based on statistical analysis. Examples of phrases include tilastollisen analyysin tulokset (the results of the statistical analysis), tilastollisen päättelyn perusteella (based on statistical inference), and tilastollisen aineiston käsittely (handling of the statistical dataset). When referring to qualitative aspects, the adjective agrees with the noun in case and number, producing forms like tilastollisia, tilastollista, tilastollisten, etc., depending on context.

See also: tilasto, tilastotiede, tilastollinen päättely, tilastollinen mallinnus.