"[A statistical table is] sometimes referred to as a summary or analytical table.  This type of table is used primarily for analyzing information as opposed to referencing, scheduling, etc.  There are always two or more variables and the data in the body is normally numeric.  Information is generally arranged, ranked, sorted, etc., to make such things as relationships, trends, comparisons, distributions, and anomalies stand out."—Thank you, Robert L. Harris, for Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference, Oxford University Press, 1983, p.368