Word

statistics, n.

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>

statistics

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

statistical statistician statistician

semantic pointers

member of this domain (topic)

bimodal unimodal average, mean median, average modal, average subnormal supernormal ergodic stochastic significant nonsignificant multivariate nonparametric sampling distribution, statistical distribution percentile, centile decile quartile cross section grab sample random sample independent variable, experimental variable degree of freedom dependent variable predictor variable Bernoulli's law, law of large numbers Bayes' theorem Bayes' postulate statistical method, statistical procedure least squares, method of least squares multivariate analysis statistic average, norm demographic deviation moment nonparametric statistic, distribution free statistic parametric statistic outlier mean deviation, mean deviation from the mean mode, modal value median, median value mean, mean value first moment, arithmetic mean, expectation, expected value geometric mean harmonic mean second moment variance standard deviation covariance frequency distribution normal distribution, Gaussian distribution Poisson distribution normal curve, bell-shaped curve, Gaussian curve, Gaussian shape population, universe subpopulation sample, sample distribution, sampling random sample stratified sample, representative sample, proportional sample regression, simple regression, regression toward the mean, statistical regression multiple regression, multiple correlation multicollinearity regression analysis regression equation, regression of y on x regression coefficient linear regression, rectilinear regression curvilinear regression regression line, regression curve time series vital statistics correlational analysis correlation matrix factor analysis analysis of variance, ANOVA correlation table curvilinear correlation, nonlinear correlation, skew correlation partial correlation first-order correlation correlation, correlation coefficient, coefficient of correlation covariation positive correlation, direct correlation negative correlation, indirect correlation product-moment correlation coefficient, Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient multiple correlation coefficient biserial correlation coefficient, biserial correlation rank-order correlation coefficient, rank-order correlation, rank-difference correlation coefficient, rank-difference correlation Kendall test Kendall partial rank correlation coefficient of concordance tau coefficient of correlation, Kendall's tau, Kendall rank correlation phi coefficient, phi correlation, fourfold point correlation split-half correlation, chance-half correlation tetrachoric correlation coefficient, tetrachoric correlation spurious correlation binomial distribution, Bernoulli distribution binomial theorem probability theory, theory of probability information theory statistician, actuary weighting, weight co-vary

hypernym

applied mathematics, applied math

part meronym

statistical method, statistical procedure

hyponym

correlation, correlational statistics nonparametric statistics biometrics, biometry, biostatistics