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Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
[edit] 1
[edit] 6
[edit] A
- Absolute deviation
- Accelerated failure time model
- Accuracy and precision
- Additive smoothing
- Admissible decision rule
- Akaike information criterion
- Algebraic statistics
- Algorithms for calculating variance
- Allan variance
- Alignments of random points
- Alternative hypothesis
- Analysis of categorical data
- Analysis of molecular variance
- Analysis of rhythmic variance
- Analysis of variance
- Ancestral graph
- Ancillary statistic
- ANCOVA
- ANOVA
- ANOVA-simultaneous component analysis
- Anomaly time series
- Anscombe transform
- Approximate Bayesian computation
- Area compatibility factor
- ARGUS distribution
- Arithmetic mean
- Association (statistics)
- Asymptotic relative efficiency redirects to Efficiency (statistics)
- Autocorrelation
- Autocovariance
- Autoregressive conditional duration
- Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity
- Autoregressive integrated moving average
- Autoregressive moving average model
[edit] B
- Balding-Nichols model
- Barber-Johnson diagram
- Barnardisation
- Baseball statistics
- Basu's theorem
- Bayes' theorem
- Thomas Bayes
- Bayes estimator
- Bayes factor
- Bayes linear
- Bayesian inference
- Bayesian linear regression
- Bayesian model comparison
- Bayesian network
- Bayesian search theory
- Behrens-Fisher problem
- Belief propagation
- Berkson error model
- Bernoulli sampling
- Bernoulli trial
- Bessel's correction
- Best linear unbiased prediction
- Beta-binomial model
- Beta distribution
- Beta prime distribution
- Bhattacharya coefficient
- Bhattacharyya distance
- Bias (statistics)
- Biased sample
- Bienaymé-Chebyshev inequality
- Bimodal distribution
- Binary classification
- Binomial distribution
- Binomial proportion confidence interval
- Binomial test
- Biometrics
- Biostatistics
- Biplot
- Allan Birnbaum
- Block design
- Blocking (statistics)
- Bonferroni correction
- Boolean analysis
- Bootstrap aggregating
- Bootstrap (statistics)
- Ladislaus Bortkiewicz
- Box-Cox distribution
- Box-Cox transformation - redirects to Power transform
- Box-Jenkins
- Box-Pierce test
- Box plot
- Leo Breiman
- Breusch–Godfrey test
- Breusch-Pagan statistic
- Brown-Forsythe test
- Business statistics
- Bühlmann model
[edit] C
- Calibrated probability assessment
- Calibration (probability) - subjective probability, redirects to Calibrated probability assessment
- Calibration (statistics) - the statistical calibration problem
- Canonical analysis
- Canonical correlation
- Categorical variable
- Cauchy-Schwarz inequality
- Censoring (statistics)
- Centerpoint (geometry) — Tukey median redirects here
- Central limit theorem
- Change detection
- Chapman–Robbins bound
- Characteristic function (probability theory)
- Chauvenet's criterion
- Chebyshev's inequality
- Checking if a coin is biased
- Chernoff bound – a special case of Chernoff's inequality
- Chernoff's inequality
- Chi distribution
- Chi-square distribution
- Chi-square test
- Chow test
- Circular statistics
- Classic data sets
- Clinical trial
- Closed testing procedure
- Cluster sampling
- Cochrane-Orcutt estimation
- Cochran test
- Cochran's theorem
- Coefficient of determination
- Coefficient of dispersion
- Coefficient of variation
- Cohen's kappa
- Combinatorial data analysis
- Combinatorial meta-analysis
- Common- and special-causes
- Comparison of statistical packages
- Complementary event
- Completeness (statistics)
- Compositional data
- Compound Poisson distribution
- Computational formula for the variance
- Computational learning theory
- Computational statistics
- Concordance correlation coefficient
- Concordant pair
- Concrete illustration of the central limit theorem
- Conditional change model
- Conditional distribution redirects to Conditional probability distribution
- Conditional independence
- Conditional probability
- Conditional probability distribution
- Conditional variance
- Conditionality principle
- Confidence interval
- Confidence band
- Confidence region
- Confounding factor
- Conjoint analysis
- Consistency (statistics) redirects to Consistent estimator
- Consistent estimator
- Contingency table
- Continuity correction
- Continuous distribution
- Contrast (statistics)
- Control chart
- Control limits
- Control variate
- Controlling for a variable
- Convex hull
- Copula (statistics)
- Correction for attenuation
- Correlate summation analysis
- Correlation
- Correlation function
- Correlation implies causation
- Correlation ratio
- Correlogram
- Count data
- Counternull
- Covariance
- Covariance and correlation
- Covariance matrix
- Cricket statistics
- Cronbach's α
- Cross-sectional data
- Cross-sectional regression
- Cross tabulation
- Cross-validation
- Crystal Ball function - a probability distribution
- Cumulant
- Cumulative distribution function
- Cumulative frequency analysis
- Curve fitting
- Harald Cramér
- Cramér-Rao bound
- Cramér-von-Mises criterion
- Cross-correlation
[edit] D
- D distribution
- d-separation
- DAP
- Data clustering
- Data mining
- Data point
- Data set
- Data transformation (statistics)
- De Finetti's theorem
- Decision theory
- Degenerate distribution
- Degrees of freedom (statistics)
- Delta method
- Deming regression
- Demographics
- Demography
- Density estimation
- Illustration of density estimation
- Design matrix
- Descriptive statistics
- Design of experiments
- Detection theory
- Deviance (statistics)
- Deviance information criterion
- Dickey-Fuller test
- Dimension reduction
- Directional statistics
- Disattenuation
- Discrete choice analysis
- Discrete distribution
- Discrete probability distribution
- Dummy variable
- Duncan's new multiple range test
- Durbin test
- Dutch book
[edit] E
- Ecological correlation
- Ecological fallacy
- Economic statistics
- Edgeworth series
- Effect size
- Efficiency (statistics)
- Eigenpoll
- Empirical Bayes method
- Empirical distribution function
- Empirical probability
- Empirical process
- Energy statistics
- Engset calculation
- T. O. Engset
- Ensemble forecasting
- A. K. Erlang
- Errors and residuals in statistics
- Errors-in-variables model
- Estimating equations
- Estimation
- Estimation theory
- Estimation of covariance matrices
- Estimator
- Evidence under Bayes theorem
- Ewens's sampling formula
- Exact test
- Exchange paradox
- Expected value
- Expectation-maximization algorithm
- Experimental techniques
- Experimenter's bias
- Explained sum of squares
- Explained variation
- Explanatory variable
- Exploratory data analysis
- Exponential distribution
- Exponential family
- Exponential smoothing
- External validity
- Extreme value theory
[edit] F
- Failure rate
- F-distribution
- F-test
- Factor analysis
- Factorial code
- Factorial experiment
- Fair coin
- Falconer's formula
- False discovery rate
- False negative
- False positive
- False positive paradox
- Familywise error rate
- Fast Fourier transform
- Feasible generalized least squares
- Fiducial inference
- File drawer problem
- Fisher information
- Ronald Fisher
- Fisher's exact test
- Fisher's linear discriminator
- Fisher's method
- Fisher transformation
- Fixed effects estimator - redirects to Fixed effects estimation
- Fixed effects estimation
- FLAME clustering
- Fleiss' kappa
- Forecast error
- Forecasting
- Forest plot
- Foundations of statistics
- Fraction of variance unexplained
- Fractional factorial design
- Freedman-Diaconis rule
- Frequency (statistics)
- Frequency distribution
- Frequency probability
- Function approximation
- Functional data analysis
- Funnel plot
[edit] G
- G-test
- Galbraith plot
- Galton-Watson process
- Galton's problem
- Gamma distribution
- Gauss-Markov theorem
- Gaussian function
- Generalized canonical correlation
- Generalized estimating equations
- Generalized Gaussian distribution
- Generalized inverse Gaussian distribution
- Generalized linear model
- Generalized method of moments
- Generative model
- Genstat
- Geodemographic segmentation
- Geometric median
- Geometric standard deviation
- Geostatistics
- German tank problem
- Gibbs sampling
- Gini coefficient
- GLIM
- Gompertz-Makeham law of mortality
- Good-Turing frequency estimation
- Goodman and Kruskal's lambda
- Goodness of fit
- William Sealey Gosset
- Graeco-Latin square
- Graphical model
- Gretl
- Group size measures
- Grubbs' test for outliers
[edit] H
- h-index
- Halton sequences
- Hannan-Quinn information criterion
- Hat matrix
- Hausman specification test
- Hausman test note merger proposal with Hausman specification test
- Hazard ratio
- Heavy-tailed distribution
- Hellinger distance
- Heteroscedasticity
- Heteroscedasticity-consistent standard errors
- Hidden Markov model
- Hierarchical linear modeling
- Histogram
- History of statistics
- Holm-Bonferroni method
- Homogeneity (statistics)
- Homoscedasticity
- Hotelling's T-square distribution
- Howland will forgery trial
- Huber-White standard errors
- Hubbert curve
- Hyperparameter
[edit] I
- Ignorability
- Illustration of the central limit theorem
- Imputation (statistics)
- Indecomposable distribution
- Independent component analysis
- Independent identically-distributed random variables
- Indicators of spatial association
- Indirect least squares
- An inequality on location and scale parameters
- Inference
- Inferential statistics redirects to Statistical inference
- Infinite divisibility (probability)
- Information bottleneck method
- Information geometry
- Information theory
- Inherent bias
- Instrumental variable
- Interaction (statistics)
- Interaction variable
- Interclass correlation
- Interclass dependence
- Internal validity
- Interquartile range
- Inter-rater reliability
- Interval estimation
- Intervening variable
- Intraclass correlation
- Invariant estimator
- Inverse Gaussian distribution
- Inverse Mills ratio
- Inverse-Wishart distribution
- Inverse transform sampling
- Iris flower data set
- Isotonic regression
- Item response theory
- Iteratively re-weighted least squares
[edit] J
- Jackknife (statistics) redirects to Resampling (statistics)
- James-Stein estimator
- Jarque-Bera test
- Jeffreys prior
- Joint probability distribution
[edit] K
- Kaplan-Meier estimator
- Kappa coefficient
- Kappa statistic
- Kendall tau distance
- Kendall tau rank correlation coefficient
- Kent distribution
- Kernel smoother
- Kernel (statistics)
- Kolmogorov-Smirnov test
- Kriging
- Kruskal-Wallis one-way analysis of variance
- Kuiper's test
- Kullback-Leibler divergence
- Kurtosis
[edit] L
- Lag operator
- Latent variable, latent variable model]
- Latent class model
- Latent Dirichlet allocation
- Latin square
- Latin hypercube sampling
- Law of large numbers
- Law of the iterated logarithm
- Law of total cumulance
- Law of total expectation
- Law of total probability
- Law of total variance
- Layered hidden Markov model
- Least absolute deviations
- Least squares
- Least-squares estimation of linear regression coefficients
- Least-squares spectral analysis
- Learning theory (statistics)
- Lehmann-Scheffé theorem
- Levene's test
- Level of measurement
- Lexis ratio
- Lies, damned lies, and statistics
- Life expectancy
- Likelihood function
- Likelihood principle
- Likelihood-ratio test
- Lilliefors test
- Lindley's paradox
- Linear discriminant analysis
- Linear model
- Linear prediction
- Linear regression
- List of basic statistics topics
- List of graphical methods
- List of probability topics
- List of statistical packages
- List of statisticians
- Ljung-Box test
- Local convex hull
- Local regression
- Locality (statistics)
- Location parameter
- Location-scale family
- Log-linear model
- Log-logistic distribution
- Logistic function
- Logistic regression
- Logit
- Lognormal distribution
- Logrank test
- Long-range dependency
- Long-tail traffic
- Longitudinal regression
- Longitudinal study
- Lorenz curve
- Loss function
- Lusser's law
[edit] M
- M-estimator
- M-separation
- Machine learning
- Mahalanobis distance
- Main effect
- Mann-Whitney U
- MANOVA
- Mantel test
- MAP estimator
- Margin of error
- Marginal distribution
- Marginal likelihood
- Marginal model
- Marginal variable
- Markov chain geostatistics
- Markov chain Monte Carlo
- Mathematical modelling in epidemiology
- Mathematical statistics
- Maximum a posteriori
- Maximum entropy classifier redirects to Logistic regression
- Maximum entropy method redirects to Principle of maximum entropy
- Maximum entropy probability distribution
- Maximum entropy spectral estimation
- Maximum likelihood
- Maximum parsimony
- McNemar's test
- Mean – see expected value
- Mean and predicted response
- Mean deviation
- Mean difference
- Mean of circular quantities
- Mean reciprocal rank
- Mean squared error
- Mean squared prediction error
- Measurement, level of — see level of measurement.
- Median
- Median polish
- Median test
- Medical statistics
- Mean time between failures
- Memorylessness
- Meta-analysis
- Method of moments (statistics)
- Metropolis-Hastings algorithm
- Midhinge
- Midrange
- Minimax
- Minimax estimator
- Minimum-variance unbiased estimator
- Minimum viable population
- Minitab
- Minque
- Missing values
- Misuse of statistics
- Mixing (mathematics)
- Mixture model
- MLwiN
- Model output statistics
- Model selection
- Moderator variable
- Modifiable areal unit problem
- Moment (mathematics)
- Moment-generating function
- Moments, method of — see method of moments (statistics).
- Moving average
- Multicollinearity
- Multidimensional scaling
- Multilevel model
- Multinomial distribution
- Multinomial test
- Multiple comparisons
- Multiple correlation
- Multiple testing correction
- Multivariate distribution
- Multivariate normal distribution
- Multivariate statistics
- Multivariate Student distribution
[edit] N
- National and international statistical services
- Negative binomial distribution
- Negative relationship
- Nelson rules
- Nested sampling algorithm
- Neyman-Pearson lemma
- Nominal category
- Noncentral chi distribution
- Noncentral chi-square distribution
- Noncentral F-distribution
- Noncentral hypergeometric distributions
- Nonlinear dimensionality reduction
- Nonlinear regression
- Non-negative matrix factorization
- Non-parametric statistics
- Nonprobability sampling
- Normal approximation
- Normal distribution
- Normal probability plot -- see also rankit
- Normal score -- see also rankit and Z score
- Normality test
- Normally distributed and uncorrelated does not imply independent
- Notation in probability and statistics
- np-chart
- Null hypothesis
- Nuisance parameter redirected to Nuisance variable
- Nuisance variable
[edit] O
- Observational error
- Observational study
- Odds
- Odds ratio
- Omitted-variable bias
- One-way ANOVA
- Operational sex ratio
- Opinion poll
- Optimal design
- Optimality criterion
- Order statistic
- Order of integration
- Ordered logit
- Ordered probit
- Ordered subset expectation maximization
- Ordination (statistics)
- Outlier
- Overdispersion
- Overfitting
[edit] P
- p-chart
- Page's trend test
- Panel analysis
- Panel data
- Paleostatistics
- Parallel factor analysis
- Parametric model
- Parametric statistics
- Pareto interpolation
- Path analysis (statistics)
- Partial autocorrelation - redirects to Partial autocorrelation function
- Partial autocorrelation function
- Partial correlation
- Partial least squares
- Particle filter
- Parzen window
- Path analysis (statistics)
- Path coefficient
- Karl Pearson
- Pearson's chi-square test (one of various chi-square tests)
- Pearson distribution
- Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient
- Percentile rank
- Periodic variation
- Peirce's criterion
- Pitman-Koopman-Darmois theorem
- Pivotal quantity
- Point estimation
- Poisson distribution
- Poisson process
- Poisson regression
- Poisson sampling
- Polychoric correlation
- Polynomial and rational function modeling
- Pooled standard deviation
- Pooling design
- Post-hoc analysis
- Power transform
- Population
- Population dynamics
- Population modeling
- Population statistics
- Population viability analysis
- Portmanteau test
- Posterior probability
- Prediction interval
- Predictive analytics
- Predictive modelling
- Principal components analysis
- Principal component regression
- Principle of maximum entropy
- Prior knowledge for pattern recognition
- Prior probability
- Prior probability distribution redirects to Prior probability
- Probabilistic forecasting
- Probabilistic latent semantic analysis
- Probability
- Probability density function
- Probability distribution
- Probability interpretations
- Probability mass function
- Probability of error
- Probability plot correlation coefficient plot
- Probability theory
- Probit
- Profile likelihood redirects to Likelihood function
- Proper linear model
- Proportional hazards models
- Prosecutor's fallacy
- Psephology
- Pseudocount
- PSPP
- Psychological statistics
- p-rep
- P-value
- Pythagorean expectation
[edit] Q
- Q test
- Q-Q plot
- Quadratic trend analysis
- Quadratic form (statistics)
- Qualitative variation
- Quantile
- Quantile regression
- Quantitative marketing research
- Quantitative psychological research
- Quantitative research
- Quartile
- Quartile coefficient of dispersion
- Quasi-likelihood
- Queuing theory in teletraffic engineering
- Adolphe Quetelet
[edit] R
- R (programming language)
- Random data—see randomness
- Random effects estimation
- Random effects model
- Random sampling
- Random sequence
- Randomization
- Randomized controlled trial
- Randomness tests
- Range (statistics)
- Rank product
- Rank-size distribution
- Rankit
- RANSAC
- Rao-Blackwell theorem
- Rasch model
- Polytomous Rasch model
- Ratio distribution
- Raw score
- Realization (probability)
- Receiver operating characteristic
- Recurrence plot
- Recursive Bayesian estimation
- Recursive least squares
- Recursive partitioning
- Regression analysis — see also linear regression
- Regression dilution
- Regression fallacy
- Regression discontinuity
- Regression toward the mean
- Rejection sampling
- Relative efficiency redirects to Efficiency (statistics)
- Relative risk
- Relative standard deviation
- Reliability (statistics)
- Reliability theory
- Reliability theory of aging and longevity
- Repeated measures design
- Replication (statistics)
- Resampling (statistics)
- Residual. See errors and residuals in statistics.
- Residual sum of squares
- Response variable
- Restricted maximum likelihood
- Ridge regression redirects to Tikhonov regularization
- Brian D. Ripley
- Robbins lemma
- Robin Hood index
- Robust regression
- Robust confidence intervals
- Robust statistics
- Root mean square deviation
- Rothamsted Experimental Station
- R programming language
- Rubin Causal Model
- Rule of succession
[edit] S
- S (programming language)
- S-PLUS
- Sacramental index
- Sammon's projection
- Sample mean and covariance redirects to Sample mean and sample covariance
- Sample mean and sample covariance
- Sample size
- Sampling (statistics)
- Sampling distribution
- SAS System
- Scale analysis (statistics)
- Scale parameter
- Scatterplot
- Scheffé's method
- Schwarz criterion
- Score (statistics)
- Score test
- Scoring algorithm
- Scoring rule
- SCORUS
- Scott's Pi
- Secular trend
- Secular variation
- Seemingly unrelated regression
- Selection bias
- Selective recruitment
- Semiparametric model
- Semivariance
- Sensitivity (tests)
- Separation test
- Sequential analysis
- Sequential estimation
- Sequential Monte Carlo methods redirects to Particle filter
- Sequential probability ratio test
- Sexual dimorphism measures
- Shapiro-Wilk test
- Sheppard's corrections
- Siegel-Tukey test
- Sieve estimator
- Simon model
- Simple moving average crossover
- Simple random sample
- Simpson's paradox
- Sinkov statistic
- Skewness
- Small area estimation
- Smoothing
- Social statistics
- Spatial analysis
- Spatial dependence
- Spatial descriptive statistics
- Spatial statistics redirects to Spatial analysis
- Spearman's rank correlation coefficient
- Spearman-Brown prediction formula
- Species discovery curve
- Specificity (tests)
- Spectrum continuation analysis
- SPSS
- Spurious relationship
- Squared deviations
- St. Petersburg paradox
- Standard deviation
- Standard error
- Standard score
- Standardized coefficient
- Stanine
- Stata
- Stationary distribution
- Stationary process
- Statistic
- Statistical arbitrage
- Statistical assembly
- Statistical assumption
- Statistical classification
- Statistical conclusion validity
- Statistical deviance—see deviance (statistics)
- Statistical dispersion
- Statistical efficiency
- Statistical epidemiology
- Statistical estimation redirects to Estimation theory
- Statistical geography
- Statistical graphics
- Statistical hypothesis testing
- Statistical independence
- Statistical inference
- Statistical learning theory
- Statistical Methods for Research Workers — a book by Ronald Fisher
- Statistical model
- Statistical model validation
- Statistical noise
- Statistical package
- Statistical parameter
- Statistical parametric mapping
- List of statistical phenomena
- Statistical population
- Statistical power
- Statistical probability
- Statistical process control
- Statistical range -- see range (statistics)
- Statistical regularity
- Statistical sample
- Statistical semantics
- Statistical significance
- Statistical survey
- Statistical theory
- Statistical unit
- Statistics
- Statistics Belgium
- Statistics education
- Statistics New Zealand
- Statistics Online Computational Resource
- StatPlus
- Stein's example
- Stein's lemma
- Stein's unbiased risk estimate
- Stemplot
- Stepwise regression
- Stimulus-response model
- Stochastic kernel
- Stochastic ordering
- Stratified sampling
- Studentized range
- Studentized residual
- Student's t-distribution
- Student's t-test
- Sufficiency (statistics)
- Sum of squares
- Summary statistics
- Surrogate model
- Survey sampling
- Survival analysis
- Survival rate
- Survival function
- System dynamics
- Systematic error (also see bias (statistics) and errors and residuals in statistics)
[edit] T
- t-distribution; see Student's t-distribution
- T-table
- Taguchi methods
- Tajima's D
- Taylor expansions for the moments of functions of random variables
- Test-retest
- Time use survey
- Time series
- Time-series regression
- Testing hypotheses suggested by the data
- Tolerance interval
- Total least squares
- Transect
- Transiogram
- Treatment learning
- Trend analysis
- Trend estimation
- Trimean
- True variance
- Truncated distribution
- Truncated mean
- Truncation
- Tukey's test
- Tukey-Kramer method
- Tweedie distributions
- Type I and type II errors
[edit] U
- U-statistic
- U test
- Unbiased estimator—see bias (statistics)
- Unbiased estimation of standard deviation
- Uncertainty
- Uncertainty quantification
- Uncomfortable science
- Underdispersion
- Uniformly most powerful test
- Unimodal distribution redirects to Unimodal function (has some stats context)
- Unit-weighted regression
- Unsolved problems in statistics
- Upper and lower probabilities
- Urn problem
[edit] V
- Validity (statistics)
- Van der Waerden test
- Variance
- Variance inflation factor
- Variance-to-mean ratio
- Variation ratio
- Variogram
- VC dimension
- VC theory
- Vector autoregression
- Violin plot
- Volatility (finance)
- von Mises-Fisher distribution
- Vuong's closeness test
- Vysochanskiï-Petunin inequality
[edit] W
- Wald distribution redirects to Inverse Gaussian distribution
- Wald test
- Weibull distribution
- Weighted sample redirects to Sample mean and sample covariance
- Weighted covariance matrix redirects to Sample mean and sample covariance
- Weighted mean
- Welch's t test
- Welch-Satterthwaite equation
- Wilks' lambda distribution
- Winsorized mean
- Whipple's index
- White test
- White noise
- Wilcoxon signed-rank test
- Window function
- Winsorising
- Wishart distribution
- Wold's theorem
[edit] X
[edit] Y
[edit] Z
[edit] External links
- ISI Glossary of Statistical Terms (multilingual), International Statistical Institute
