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1Sampling (statistics) — Sampling is that part of statistical practice concerned with the selection of individual observations intended to yield some knowledge about a population of concern, especially for the purposes of statistical inference. Each observation measures… …
2probability theory — Math., Statistics. the theory of analyzing and making statements concerning the probability of the occurrence of uncertain events. Cf. probability (def. 4). [1830 40] * * * Branch of mathematics that deals with analysis of random events.… …
3Sample size determination — is the act of choosing the number of observations to include in a statistical sample. The sample size is an important feature of any empirical study in which the goal is to make inferences about a population from a sample. In practice, the sample …
4Sample size — The sample size of a statistical sample is the number of observations that constitute it. It is typically denoted n , a positive integer (natural number).Typically, all else being equal, a larger sample size leads to increased precision in… …
5Effect size — In statistics, an effect size is a measure of the strength of the relationship between two variables in a statistical population, or a sample based estimate of that quantity. An effect size calculated from data is a descriptive statistic that… …
6Latin hypercube sampling — (LHS) is a statistical method for generating a distribution of plausible collections of parameter values from a multidimensional distribution. The sampling method is often applied in uncertainty analysis. The technique was first described by… …
7Frequency probability — Statistical probability redirects here. For the episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, see Statistical Probabilities. John Venn Frequency probability is the interpretation of probability that defines an event s probability as the limit of its… …
8National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health — The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (also called Add Health) is the only nationally representative study of adolescent sexuality, which has spawned over one thousand peer reviewed publications on many issues related to adolescent …
9Proportionator — Articleissues context=March 2008 wikify=March 2008 refimprove=March 2008 inline=March 2008 expert=March 2008The proportionator is an unbiased stereological method used to estimate population size. A typical application is counting the number of… …
10Epidemiology of obesity — World obesity prevalence among males.[1] …
