# Metric vs. Statistic

## Difference Between Metric and Statistic

of or relating to the metric system of measurement

alternative form of statistical

(music) of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.

#### Statisticnoun

A single item in a statistical study.

of or relating to distance

#### Statisticnoun

A quantity calculated from the data in a sample, which characterises an important aspect in the sample (such as mean or standard deviation).

#### Metricnoun

A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering)

What metric should be used for performance evaluation?What are the most important metrics to track for your business?It's the most important single metric that quantifies the predictive performance.How to measure marketing? Use these key metrics for measuring marketing effectiveness.There is a lack of standard metrics.

#### Statisticnoun

A person, or personal event, reduced to being an item of statistical information.

By dying from an overdose, he became just another statistic.

#### Metricnoun

(mathematics) A measurement of the "distance" between two points in some metric space: it is a real-valued function d(x,y) between points x and y satisfying the following properties: (1) "non-negativity": $d\left(x,y\right) \ge 0$, (2) "identity of indiscernibles": $d\left(x,y\right) = 0 \mbox\left\{ iff \right\} x=y$, (2) "symmetry": $d\left(x,y\right) = d\left(y,x\right)$, and (3) "triangle inequality": $d\left(x,y\right) \le d\left(x,z\right) + d\left(z,y\right)$.

#### Statisticnoun

a datum that can be represented numerically

#### Metricnoun

(mathematics) a metric tensor

#### Metricnoun

abbreviation of metric system

#### Metricverb

To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process.

We need to metric the status of software documentation.We need to metric the verification of requirements.We need to metric the system failures.The project manager is metricking the closure of the action items.Customer satisfaction was metricked by the marketing department.

#### Metricnoun

a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them

#### Metricnoun

a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds);

convert all the measurements to metric unitsit is easier to work in metric

#### Metricnoun

a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic

based on the meter as a standard of measurement;

the metric systemmetrical equivalents

the rhythmic arrangement of syllables