tilastinen

Tilastinen is a Finnish adjective meaning related to statistics or statistical information. It is formed from tilasto (statistic) with the attributive suffix -nen, a productive pattern in Finnish for creating adjectives. The word is recognizable to Finnish speakers, but it is not the most common form for the general concept of statistics.

In contemporary standard Finnish, tilastollinen is the preferred term for “statistical.” Tilastinen can occur in certain technical or domain-specific terms, in older texts, or in contexts where a shorter or more specialized variant is favored. Because tilastollinen is widely established in formal writing and scholarly work, tilastinen is typically avoided in high-register contexts unless there is a stylistic or terminological reason to use it.

Semantics and usage notes: tilastinen can modify nouns related to data, analysis, or information, for example in phrases found in some corpora or field-specific language. However, many speakers would default to tilastollinen to convey the same meaning. The adverbial form derived from tilastollinen is tilastollisesti.

Etymology: tilastinen is derived from tilasto with the suffix -nen, aligning with other Finnish adjectives formed in this way. Related terms include tilasto (statistic), tilastotiede (statistics as a discipline), and data-related expressions that are often expressed with tilastollinen or alternative descriptive constructions.

See also: tilasto, tilastollinen, tilastotiede, data.