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This glossary of statistics and probability is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in the
mathematical Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...
sciences of
statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ''wikt:Statistik#German, Statistik'', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of ...
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probability Probability is the branch of mathematics concerning numerical descriptions of how likely an Event (probability theory), event is to occur, or how likely it is that a proposition is true. The probability of an event is a number between 0 and ...
, their sub-disciplines, and related fields. For additional related terms, see
Glossary of mathematics This is a glossary featuring terms used across different areas in mathematics, or terms that do not typically appear in more specialized glossaries. For the terms used only in some specific areas of mathematics, see glossaries in :Glossaries of ...
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Glossary of experimental design A glossary of terms used in experimental research. Concerned fields * Statistics * Experimental design * Estimation theory Glossary * Alias: When the estimate of an effect also includes the influence of one or more other effects (usually hi ...
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Notation in probability and statistics Probability theory and statistics have some commonly used conventions, in addition to standard mathematical notation and mathematical symbols. Probability theory * Random variables are usually written in upper case roman letters: ''X'', ''Y'', ...
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Probability axioms The Kolmogorov axioms are the foundations of probability theory introduced by Russian mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov in 1933. These axioms remain central and have direct contributions to mathematics, the physical sciences, and real-world probabili ...
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Glossary of experimental design A glossary of terms used in experimental research. Concerned fields * Statistics * Experimental design * Estimation theory Glossary * Alias: When the estimate of an effect also includes the influence of one or more other effects (usually hi ...
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List of statistical topics 0–9 * 1.96 *2SLS (two-stage least squares) redirects to instrumental variable *3SLS – see three-stage least squares *68–95–99.7 rule *100-year flood A *A priori probability *Abductive reasoning *Absolute deviation *Absolute risk red ...
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List of probability topics This is a list of probability topics, by Wikipedia page. It overlaps with the (alphabetical) list of statistical topics. There are also the outline of probability and catalog of articles in probability theory. For distributions, see List of pro ...
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Glossary of areas of mathematics Mathematics is a broad subject that is commonly divided in many areas that may be defined by their objects of study, by the used methods, or by both. For example, analytic number theory is a subarea of number theory devoted to the use of methods ...
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Glossary of calculus A glossary (from grc, γλῶσσα, ''glossa''; language, speech, wording) also known as a vocabulary or clavis, is an alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms. Traditionally, a glo ...


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Probability and Statistics on the Earliest Uses Pages (Univ. of Southampton)
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Probability and statistics Probability and statistics are two closely related fields in mathematics, sometimes combined for academic purposes. They are covered in several articles: * Probability * Statistics * Glossary of probability and statistics * Notation in probability ...
Probability and statistics Probability and statistics are two closely related fields in mathematics, sometimes combined for academic purposes. They are covered in several articles: * Probability * Statistics * Glossary of probability and statistics * Notation in probability ...
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