Category
page 1Statistical theory
statistical population
complete set of items that share at least one property in common that is the subject of a statistical analysis
mathematical statistics
branch of statistics, mathematical methods are used here
statistical model
type of mathematical model
design of experiments
scientific craft
degrees of freedom
number of values in the final calculation of a statistic that are free to vary
independent and identically distributed random variables
important notion in probability and statistics
conditional expectation
expected value in a conditional distribution
sufficient statistic
concept
goodness of fit
how well a statistical model fits a set of observations
Classical test theory
Theory in psychometrics
extreme value theory
branch of statistics focusing on large deviations
statistical theory
provides a basis for the whole range of techniques, in both study design and data analysis, that are used within applications of statistics
completeness
statistics term
directional statistics
subdiscipline of statistics
ancillary statistic
statistic whose sampling distribution does not depend on the parameter