List of basic statistics topics

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Statistics is a mathematical science pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. It is applicable to a wide variety of academic disciplines, from the physical and social sciences to the humanities; it is also used and misused for making informed decisions in all areas of business and government. Basic topics in statistics include:

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1 Nature of statistics
2 Branches of statistics
3 History of statistics
4 Basic statistics concepts
5 Statistics scholars
6 Statistics lists
7 Reference
8 See also
9 External links

[edit] Nature of statistics

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[edit] Branches of statistics

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[edit] History of statistics

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[edit] Basic statistics concepts

ANOVA — binomial distribution — census — chi-square distribution — combinatorics — data — degrees of freedom (statistics) — descriptive statistics — errors and residuals in statistics — experimental design — frequency distribution table — histogram — inferential statistics — mean — median — mode — modeling — Monte Carlo method — normal distribution — probability — probability distribution — random variable — Regression toward the mean — sampling — sampling bias — sampling distribution — simulation — standard deviation — statistics — statistical survey — t-distribution — time-series analysis — variance

[edit] Statistics scholars

Main article List of statisticians

Ronald Fisher (1890 – 1962)
Karl Pearson (1857 – 1956)
William Sealy Gosset (1876 – 1937)
Jerzy Neyman (1894 – 1981)
Egon Pearson (1895 – 1980)
Emil Julius Gumbel (1891 – 1966)
Frank Wilcoxon (1892 – 1965)
Leonard Henry Caleb Tippett (1902 – 1985)

[edit] Statistics lists

Main article: List of statistics topics

[edit] Reference

Salsburg, David, The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century, 2001, ISBN 0-7167-4106-7

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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