tilastollista

Tilastollista is the partitive singular form of the Finnish adjective tilastollinen, meaning statistical. As an attributive modifier, tilastollista is used with a noun in the partitive case to express an indefinite or general sense of statistical nature. It is common in academic and scientific Finnish and appears in phrases such as tilastollista tietoa (statistical information), tilastollista tutkimusta (statistical research), and tilastollista menetelmää (statistical method).

In Finnish, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in number, case, and definiteness. Therefore tilastollista appears whenever the noun it modifies is in the partitive case. Examples include tilastollista analyysiä (statistical analysis), tilastollista otosta (statistical sample), and tilastollista huomautusta (statistical note, in the right context). The form is not used alone as a noun; it requires a following noun to convey a complete meaning.

Tilastollinen as a broader concept relates to the discipline of statistics, or tilastotiede in Finnish. Related linguistic forms include tilastollisesti, the adverb meaning “statistically,” which is used to modify verbs or adjectives (for example, tilastollisesti merkitsevä tulos, a statistically significant result). In practice, tilastollista appears across research writing, data analysis reports, and methodological descriptions, signaling that the statement involves statistical methods, data, or interpretations.