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101Data collection — is a term used to describe a process of preparing and collecting data, for example, as part of a process improvement or similar project. The purpose of data collection is to obtain information to keep on record, to make decisions about important… …
102Morris H. DeGroot — Morris Herman DeGroot (June 8, 1931 – November 2, 1989) was an American statistician. Biography Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, DeGroot graduated from Roosevelt University and earned master s and doctor s degrees from the University of Chicago.… …
103Clinical study design — is the formulation of trials and experiments in medical and epidemiological research, sometimes known as clinical trials. Many of the considerations here are shared under the more general topic of design of experiments but there can be others, in …
104David A. Freedman (statistician) — David A. Freedman (1938 – 2008) was Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a distinguished mathematical statistician whose wide ranging research included the analysis of martingale inequalities, Markov processes …
105Kaplan–Meier estimator — The Kaplan–Meier estimator,[1][2] also known as the product limit estimator, is an estimator for estimating the survival function from life time data. In medical research, it is often used to measure the fraction of patients living for a certain… …
106General linear model — Not to be confused with generalized linear model. The general linear model (GLM) is a statistical linear model. It may be written as[1] where Y is a matrix with series of multivariate measurements, X is a matrix that might be a design matrix, B… …
107Summary statistic — Box plot of the Michelson–Morley experiment, showing several summary statistics. In descriptive statistics, summary statistics are used to summarize a set of observations, in order to communicate the largest amount as simply as possible.… …
108Correlation and dependence — This article is about correlation and dependence in statistical data. For other uses, see correlation (disambiguation). In statistics, dependence refers to any statistical relationship between two random variables or two sets of data. Correlation …
109Covariance — This article is about the measure of linear relation between random variables. For other uses, see Covariance (disambiguation). In probability theory and statistics, covariance is a measure of how much two variables change together. Variance is a …
110Time series — Time series: random data plus trend, with best fit line and different smoothings In statistics, signal processing, econometrics and mathematical finance, a time series is a sequence of data points, measured typically at successive times spaced at …
