International Journal of Education and Social Science (IJESS)

Statistics is a branch of mathematics dealing with data collection, organization, analysis, interpretation and presentation, which is widely used in different fields of studying, e.g. corpus linguistics. Based on a 14-billion-word iWeb Corpus, this paper aims at investigating the top 50 collocation of statistics by dividing them into six categories, including the category of Terms, Disciplines, Topics, Organizations, Spots and others. The result shows that: 1) in the category of Terms, statistics usually collocates with probability, descriptive, inferential and population; 2) in the category of Disciplines, four subjects including statistics, mathematics/math, economics and calculus frequently collocate with statistics; 3) in the category of Topics, crime, employment and justice are the three topics that mostly collocate with statistics in iWeb corpus; 4) in the category of Organizations, ABS, BLS, Statistics NZ are the three main departments; 5) in the category of Spots, Canada, USA, Australia and New Zealand are the four countries frequently collocate with statistics. Moreover, there’s no relevance between the frequency of a collocate and its strength (measured by MI value).