mathematical statistics
81Robust statistics — provides an alternative approach to classical statistical methods. The motivation is to produce estimators that are not unduly affected by small departures from model assumptions. Contents 1 Introduction 2 Examples of robust and non robust… …
82Philosophy of statistics — The philosophy of statistics involves the meaning, justification, utility, use and abuse of statistics and its methodology, and ethical and epistemological issues involved in the consideration of choice and interpretation of data and methods of… …
83List of mathematical functions — In mathematics, several functions or groups of functions are important enough to deserve their own names. This is a listing of pointers to those articles which explain these functions in more detail. There is a large theory of special functions… …
84Maxwell–Boltzmann statistics — Statistical mechanics Thermodynamics · …
85Directional statistics — is the subdiscipline of statistics that deals with directions (unit vectors in Rn), axes (lines through the origin in Rn) or rotations in Rn. More generally, directional statistics deals with observations on compact Riemannian manifolds. The… …
86Divergence (statistics) — In statistics and information geometry, divergence or a contrast function is a function which establishes the “distance” of one probability distribution to the other on a statistical manifold. The divergence is a weaker notion than that of the… …
87Foundations of statistics — is the usual name for the epistemological debate over how one should conduct inductive inference from data. Among issues considered are the question of Bayesian inference versus frequentist inference, the distinction between Fisher s significance …
88Non-parametric statistics — In statistics, the term non parametric statistics has at least two different meanings: The first meaning of non parametric covers techniques that do not rely on data belonging to any particular distribution. These include, among others:… …
89Standard error (statistics) — For a value that is sampled with an unbiased normally distributed error, the above depicts the proportion of samples that would fall between 0, 1, 2, and 3 standard deviations above and below the actual value. The standard error is the standard… …
90Misuse of statistics — A misuse of statistics occurs when a statistical argument asserts a falsehood. In some cases, the misuse may be accidental. In others, it is purposeful and for the gain of the perpetrator. When the statistical reason involved is false or… …
