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Parameter is any attribute

Statistic are the measured values of a parameter.

A statistic is a sample value such as the average height of a group of students.

A parameter is a functional constant such as the mean of a normal distribution.

Statistics are often used to estimate parameters. For instance, a sample average is an estimate of the mean.

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