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1. a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters (noun.cognition)
hypernym | : | applied math, applied mathematics, |
definition | : | the branches of mathematics that are involved in the study of the physical or biological or sociological world (noun.cognition) |
hyponym | : | correlation, correlational statistics, |
definition | : | a statistical relation between two or more variables such that systematic changes in the value of one variable are accompanied by systematic changes in the other (noun.cognition) |
hyponym | : | nonparametric statistics, |
definition | : | the branch of statistics dealing with variables without making assumptions about the form or the parameters of their distribution (noun.cognition) |
hyponym | : | biometrics, biometry, biostatistics, |
definition | : | a branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations by means of statistical analysis (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | sampling, |
definition | : | (statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study (noun.act) |
domain member category | : | distribution, statistical distribution, |
definition | : | (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | centile, percentile, |
definition | : | (statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | decile, |
definition | : | (statistics) any of nine points that divided a distribution of ranked scores into equal intervals where each interval contains one-tenth of the scores (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | quartile, |
definition | : | (statistics) any of three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts each containing one quarter of the scores (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | cross section, |
definition | : | a sample meant to be representative of a whole population (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | grab sample, |
definition | : | a single sample or measurement taken at a specific time or over as short a period as feasible (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | random sample, |
definition | : | a sample grabbed at random (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | degree of freedom, |
definition | : | (statistics) an unrestricted variable in a frequency distribution (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | dependent variable, |
definition | : | (statistics) a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value depends on the independent variable (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | predictor variable, |
definition | : | a variable that can be used to predict the value of another variable (as in statistical regression) (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | bernoulli's law, law of large numbers, |
definition | : | (statistics) law stating that a large number of items taken at random from a population will (on the average) have the population statistics (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | bayes' theorem, |
definition | : | (statistics) a theorem describing how the conditional probability of a set of possible causes for a given observed event can be computed from knowledge of the probability of each cause and the conditional probability of the outcome of each cause (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | bayes' postulate, |
definition | : | (statistics) the difficulty of applying Bayes' theorem is that the probabilities of the different causes are seldom known, in which case it may be postulated that they are all equal (sometimes known as postulating the equidistribution of ignorance) (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | least squares, method of least squares, |
definition | : | a method of fitting a curve to data points so as to minimize the sum of the squares of the distances of the points from the curve (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | multivariate analysis, |
definition | : | a generic term for any statistical technique used to analyze data from more than one variable (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | statistic, |
definition | : | a datum that can be represented numerically (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | average, norm, |
definition | : | a statistic describing the location of a distribution (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | demographic, |
definition | : | a statistic characterizing human populations (or segments of human populations broken down by age or sex or income etc.) (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | deviation, |
definition | : | the difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | moment, |
definition | : | the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | parametric statistic, |
definition | : | any statistic computed by procedures that assume the data were drawn from a particular distribution (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | outlier, |
definition | : | an extreme deviation from the mean (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | modal value, mode, |
definition | : | the most frequent value of a random variable (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | median, median value, |
definition | : | the value below which 50% of the cases fall (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | mean, mean value, |
definition | : | an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | geometric mean, |
definition | : | the mean of n numbers expressed as the n-th root of their product (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | harmonic mean, |
definition | : | the mean of n numbers expressed as the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of the numbers (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | second moment, |
definition | : | the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from the point of origin (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | variance, |
definition | : | the second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | standard deviation, |
definition | : | the square root of the variance (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | covariance, |
definition | : | (statistics) the mean value of the product of the deviations of two variates from their respective means (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | frequency distribution, |
definition | : | a distribution of observed frequencies of occurrence of the values of a variable (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | poisson distribution, |
definition | : | a theoretical distribution that is a good approximation to the binomial distribution when the probability is small and the number of trials is large (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | population, universe, |
definition | : | (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | subpopulation, |
definition | : | a population that is part of a larger population (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | sample, sample distribution, sampling, |
definition | : | items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | random sample, |
definition | : | a sample in which every element in the population has an equal chance of being selected (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | multiple correlation, multiple regression, |
definition | : | a statistical technique that predicts values of one variable on the basis of two or more other variables (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | multicollinearity, |
definition | : | a case of multiple regression in which the predictor variables are themselves highly correlated (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | regression analysis, |
definition | : | the use of regression to make quantitative predictions of one variable from the values of another (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | regression equation, regression of y on x, |
definition | : | the equation representing the relation between selected values of one variable (x) and observed values of the other (y); it permits the prediction of the most probable values of y (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | regression coefficient, |
definition | : | when the regression line is linear (y = ax + b) the regression coefficient is the constant (a) that represents the rate of change of one variable (y) as a function of changes in the other (x); it is the slope of the regression line (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | curvilinear regression, |
definition | : | the relation between variables when the regression equation is nonlinear (quadratic or higher order) (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | regression curve, regression line, |
definition | : | a smooth curve fitted to the set of paired data in regression analysis; for linear regression the curve is a straight line (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | time series, |
definition | : | a series of values of a variable at successive times (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | vital statistics, |
definition | : | data relating to births and deaths and health and diseases and marriages (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | correlational analysis, |
definition | : | the use of statistical correlation to evaluate the strength of the relations between variables (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | correlation matrix, |
definition | : | a matrix giving the correlations between all pairs of data sets (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | factor analysis, |
definition | : | any of several methods for reducing correlational data to a smaller number of dimensions or factors; beginning with a correlation matrix a small number of components or factors are extracted that are regarded as the basic variables that account for the interrelations observed in the data (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | analysis of variance, anova, |
definition | : | a statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means; a statistical method that yields values that can be tested to determine whether a significant relation exists between variables (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | correlation table, |
definition | : | a two-way tabulation of the relations between correlates; row headings are the scores on one variable and column headings are the scores on the second variables and a cell shows how many times the score on that row was associated with the score in that column (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | partial correlation, |
definition | : | a correlation between two variables when the effects of one or more related variables are removed (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | first-order correlation, |
definition | : | a partial correlation in which the effects of only one variable are removed (held constant) (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | covariation, |
definition | : | (statistics) correlated variation (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | direct correlation, positive correlation, |
definition | : | a correlation in which large values of one variable are associated with large values of the other and small with small; the correlation coefficient is between 0 and +1 (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | indirect correlation, negative correlation, |
definition | : | a correlation in which large values of one variable are associated with small values of the other; the correlation coefficient is between 0 and -1 (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | multiple correlation coefficient, |
definition | : | an estimate of the combined influence of two or more variables on the observed (dependent) variable (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | kendall test, |
definition | : | any of several nonparametric measures of correlation (used when the assumptions of standard correlational analysis are not met) (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | coefficient of concordance, |
definition | : | a coefficient of agreement (concordance) between different sets of rank orderings of the same set of things (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | chance-half correlation, split-half correlation, |
definition | : | a correlation coefficient calculated between scores on two halves of a test; taken as an indication of the reliability of the test (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | spurious correlation, |
definition | : | a correlation between two variables (e.g., between the number of electric motors in the home and grades at school) that does not result from any direct relation between them (buying electric motors will not raise grades) but from their relation to other variables (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | bernoulli distribution, binomial distribution, |
definition | : | a theoretical distribution of the number of successes in a finite set of independent trials with a constant probability of success (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | binomial theorem, |
definition | : | a theorem giving the expansion of a binomial raised to a given power (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | information theory, |
definition | : | (computer science) a statistical theory dealing with the limits and efficiency of information processing (noun.cognition) |
domain member category | : | actuary, statistician, |
definition | : | someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums) (noun.person) |
domain member category | : | weight, weighting, |
definition | : | (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance (noun.quantity) |
domain member category | : | co-vary, |
definition | : | vary in the same time period (of two random variables) (verb.stative) |
domain member category | : | bimodal, |
definition | : | of a distribution; having or occurring with two modes (adj.all) |
domain member category | : | unimodal, |
definition | : | having a single mode (adj.all) |
domain member category | : | average, mean, |
definition | : | approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value (adj.all) |
domain member category | : | average, median, |
definition | : | relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values) (adj.all) |
domain member category | : | average, modal, |
definition | : | relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution (adj.all) |
domain member category | : | subnormal, |
definition | : | below normal or average (adj.all) |
domain member category | : | supernormal, |
definition | : | exceeding the normal or average (adj.all) |
domain member category | : | ergodic, |
definition | : | positive recurrent aperiodic state of stochastic systems; tending in probability to a limiting form that is independent of the initial conditions (adj.all) |
domain member category | : | stochastic, |
definition | : | being or having a random variable (adj.all) |
domain member category | : | significant, |
definition | : | too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicating a systematic relation (adj.all) |
domain member category | : | nonsignificant, |
definition | : | attributable to chance (adj.all) |
domain member category | : | multivariate, |
definition | : | pertaining to any procedure involving two or more variables (adj.all) |
domain member category | : | nonparametric, |
definition | : | not involving an estimation of the parameters of a statistic (adj.pert) |
derivation | : | actuary, statistician, |
definition | : | someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums) (noun.person) |
derivation | : | statistical, |
definition | : | of or relating to statistics (adj.pert) |
derivation | : | actuary, statistician, |
definition | : | someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums) (noun.person) |
derivation | : | statistical, |
definition | : | of or relating to statistics (adj.pert) |
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