"Statistics" already translates to "science of state", with the word for "science" omitted and implied. Some languages favor deriving new pompous terms from Lat

"Statistics" already translates to "science of state", with the word for "science" omitted and implied. Some languages favor deriving new pompous terms from Latin roots (like "informatics"), while English favors blunt descriptive terms (like "computer science"). The original English term for statistics was "political arithmetic", but ultimately the continental term prevailed.