Statistics is intimately linked to probability theory. You can use statistics to work out the probability, the chance, that a certain event will occur: if you want to know the chance that your holiday plane will crash, you think of how many planes usually crash within a year. Since this number is very small, you deduce that the chance of your plane crashing is small also. You’ve done a very simple statistical analysis of the data concerning plane crashes and used it to work out a probability.