List of basic statistics topics
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'''[[Statistics]]''' is a [[Mathematics|mathematical science]] pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of [[data]]. It is applicable to a wide variety of [[academic discipline]]s, from the physical and social [[science]]s to the [[humanities]]; it is also used and [[Misuse of statistics|misused]] for making informed decisions in all areas of [[business]] and [[government]].
The following outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to '''statistics''':
== Basic statistics concepts ==
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*[[ANOVA]]
*[[binomial distribution]]
*[[chi-square distribution]]
*[[combinatorics]]
*[[data]]
*[[degrees of freedom (statistics)]]
*[[descriptive statistics]]
*[[errors and residuals in statistics]]
*[[experimental design]]
*[[frequency distribution|frequency distribution table]]
*[[histogram]]
*[[inferential statistics]]
*[[mean]]
*[[median]]
*[[Mode (statistics)|mode]]
*[[model (abstract)|modeling]]
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*[[Monte Carlo method]]
*[[normal distribution]]
*[[probability]]
*[[probability distribution]]
*[[random variable]]
*[[Regression toward the mean]]
*[[Sampling (statistics)|sampling]]
*[[sampling bias]]
*[[sampling distribution]]
*[[simulation]]
*[[standard deviation]]
*[[statistical survey]]
*[[t-distribution]]
*[[time-series analysis]]
*[[variance]]
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== See also ==
* [[List of statisticians]]
* [[List of statistics topics]]
* [[Statistics]]
* [[Glossary of probability and statistics]]
* [[Notation in probability and statistics]]
==References==
* Salsburg, David, ''The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century'', 2001, ISBN 0-7167-4106-7
==External links==
===General sites and organizations===
* [http://www.amstat.org/ American Statistical Association]
* [http://freestatistics.altervista.org/ Free Statistics (free and open source software, data and tutorials)]
* [http://isi.cbs.nl/ International Statistical Institute]
* [http://www.mathcs.carleton.edu/probweb/probweb.html Probability Web]
* [http://www.statsci.org StatSci.org: Statistical Science Web]
* [http://www.conceptstew.co.uk/PAGES/freeresources.html Statistics Glossary - and other teaching and learning resources]
* [http://www.census.gov/main/www/stat_int.html Statistical Agencies (International)]
* [http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/ Statlib: Data, Software and News from the Statistics Community (Carnegie Mellon)]
* [http://statpages.org/ StatPages.net (statistical calculations, free software, etc.)]
===Online courses and textbooks===
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{{Wikiversity|Introduction to Statistics}}
* [http://sportsci.org/resource/stats/ "A New View of Statistics" by Will G. Hopkins]
* [http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html Electronic Statistics Textbook (StatSoft,Inc., The Statistics Homepage)]
* [http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/index.html HyperStat Online: An Introductory Statistics Textbook and Online Tutorial for Help in Statistics Courses (David Lane)]
* [http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/ NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods]
* [http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/statnote.htm Statnotes: Topics in Multivariate Analysis, by G. David Garson]
* [http://www.stats4students.com/index.php stats4students.com: Introductory guides to understanding & calculating statistics]
* [http://www.StatisticalPractice.com "The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice"] by [http://www.tufts.edu/~gdallal/ Dr. Gerard E. Dallal], [[Tufts University]].
===Other resources===
* [http://www.informath.org/StatDis.pdf Disputes in statistical analyses] a single-page review (PDF).
* [http://www.ericdigests.org/1993/marriage.htm Resampling: A Marriage of Computers and Statistics (ERIC Digests)]
* [http://www.ericdigests.org/2000-2/resources.htm Resources for Teaching and Learning about Probability and Statistics (ERIC Digests)]
* [http://www.csdassn.org/software_reports.cfm Software Reports (by the International Association for Statistical Computing)]
*[http://www.statistics.com/resources/glossary/ Statistical glossary]
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