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.

Contents 1 Basic statistics concepts 2 Statistics scholars 3 See also 4 References

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

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)

See also

• List of statistics topics

References

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