<p>"Statistics" has several senses.</p>

<p>One of them is overly general.  It's inappropriate on this site.</p>

<p>Within the field, though, a "statistic" is a summary of data.  Some questions have that as their primary focus: what <em>statistic</em> would be appropriate for my situation?  What is the sampling distribution of this <em>statistic</em>?  What are the pros and cons of using this or that <em>statistic</em> in the analysis of my problem?  Etc.</p>

<p>I recently went through and removed many of the unwarranted "statistics" tags.  (Due to lack of time I didn't go all the way through the list, though.)  Some deserved to remain in the second sense.</p>

<p>Perhaps a good solution is to rename "statistics" to "statistic" and update its wiki appropriately.</p>
