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VITAL STATISTICS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Data relating to births and deaths and health and diseases and marriages
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("vital statistics" is a kind of...):
statistic (a datum that can be represented numerically)
Domain category:
statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)