Wikipedia:WikiProject Statistics
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Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group, whose aim is:
- To improve Wikipedia's coverage of statistics and the organization of information and articles on this topic.
This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to do lists below.
This WikiProject covers articles related to statistics, including the history of statistics and biographies of statisticians. Articles within its scope include those in:
- List of statistics topics
- Category:Statistics and its sub-categories
- Category:Statisticians and its sub-categories
An expandable tree view of subcategories of Category:Statistics is available at CategoryTree->Statistics.
As of 3 March 2012, there are 2,247 articles within the scope of WikiProject Statistics, of which 2 are featured and 4 are good articles. This makes up 0.06% of the articles on Wikipedia, 0.04% of all featured articles and lists, and 0.03% of all good articles. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 4,594 pages in the project. Approximately 48% of the articles in the scope of this project have been marked as requiring some form of attention.
The list of statistics topics is being extended to include existing articles not previously listed and any new or unlisted statistics-related articles should be added. The list contains 2642 items, including some redirects (17 October 2011: was 2233 on 29 July 2009: was 1731 on 31 December 2008: was 945 on 22 May 2008). The list is not at present very sophisticated and this project could undertake general improvements given that lists are far more versatile than categories. Look at list of mathematics articles and lists of mathematics topics.
Some priority articles that the project hopes to make progress with are those in:
[edit] Guidelines
Here are general guidelines for different types of articles in the project.
- Consider adding one of these navigational boxes to the end of the article:
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- {{Statistics}} (example: Statistical hypothesis testing)
- {{Least squares and regression analysis}} (example: Nonlinear regression)
- {{Experimental design}} (example: Randomized block design)
- {{Medical research studies}} (example: Randomized controlled trial)
- {{Statistics journals}} (example: The American Statistician)
- {{ProbDistributions}} (example: Binomial distribution)
- {{Theory of probability distributions}} (example: Probability mass function)
- Add {{WPStatistics}} to the article's discussion page
- Tag the discussion page with
- {{maths rating | field=probability and statistics | importance= | class=}}
- using appropriate values for the class and importance parameters as described here.
[edit] General statistics articles
- Use one or more sub-category of Category:Statistics
- Tag stubs with {{statistics-stub}}
[edit] Probability distributions
- Include either the {{Probability distribution}} (e.g., Negative binomial distribution) or the {{Probability distribution two}} (e.g., Geometric distribution) infobox (feel free to leave some parameters blank)
- Add an appropriate sub-category of Category:Probability distributions
- Tag stubs with {{probability-stub}}
[edit] Biographies of statisticians
- Include {{infobox scientist}} with all known information.
- Add Category:Statisticians or one of its sub-categories
- Make sure you follow the policy on Biographies of living persons
- Add {{WPBiography}} to the article's discussion page (include "|living=yes" to the template for living persons)
- Tag stubs with {{statistician-stub}}, {{UK-statistician-stub}} or {{US-statistician-stub}}
[edit] Participants
Please feel free to add (or delete) your name below, and to indicate any areas of particular interest. You may also wish to add {{User WikiProject Statistics}} to your User page, which will add your name to Category:WikiProject Statistics members.
The first eleven names below are of those who signed up during the initial discussion on WikiProject Council/Proposals, as archived at /Proposal.
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- Qwfp (talk · contribs) 10:21, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
- Salix alba (talk · contribs) 18:43, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
- O18 (talk · contribs) 00:31, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
- Baccyak4H (talk · contribs) 02:31, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
- Tayste (talk · contribs) 05:09, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
- Petergans (talk · contribs) 07:55, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
- Johnbibby (talk · contribs) 15:37, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
- Michael Hardy (talk · contribs) 20:12, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
- Shirahadasha (talk · contribs) 13:03, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
- Melcombe (talk · contribs) 16:59, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
- Btyner (talk · contribs) 02:20, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
- Coppertwig (talk · contribs) 22:50, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
- Avenue (talk · contribs) 01:55, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
- EdJohnston (talk · contribs) 04:06, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
- Zvika (talk · contribs) 17:21, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
- Billjefferys (talk · contribs) 22:12, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
- Shanbhag.rohan (talk · contribs)
- Statprof (talk · contribs) 15:15, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3mta3 (talk · contribs) 12:04, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- Fangz (talk · contribs) 15:26, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
- Bluemaster (talk · contribs) 13:51, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
- Doncram (talk · contribs) 23:57, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
- Avraham (talk · contribs) 02:43, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
- Wolf87 (talk) 01:55, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
- thesoxlost (talk · contribs) 22:02, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
- --Aredgers (talk) 23:10, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
- Intersofia (talk · contribs)15:19, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
- Robek2020 (talk · contribs)12:56, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
- Jollyroger131 (talk · contribs) 05:24, 23 April 2009
- skbkekas (talk · contribs)
- Aetheling (talk · contribs) 15 June 2009
- Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk · contribs) 25 June 2009
- stpasha (talk ≠ contribs) 1st July 2009
- Hanspi (talk) 06:03, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
- L.A.Bachevskij (talk • contribs) 17:07, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
- Rlendog (talk) 03:10, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
- Dbhart42 (talk · contribs) 18:58, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
- Cordless Larry (talk · contribs) - interested in the institutional aspects of statistics, e.g. censuses, national statistical offices. 15:31, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
- kjetil1001 (talk · contribs) --Kjetil Halvorsen 22:29, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
- Kathryn Tzvia (talk · contribs) 05:30, 28 January 2010
- Mike409 (talk · contribs) 11:22, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
- Owensmartin (talk) 20:47, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- JRonimoh (talk) 20:47, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
- P64 (talk) 20:58, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
- Liz111178 (talk · contribs) 4 June 2010
- Jucypsycho (talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on cluster analysis) 04:19, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
- Npkswami (talk · contribs)
- Jim.Callahan,Orlando (talk) (I am interested in working on R language (including examples) and econometrics.) 16:49, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
- Paul Scheer (talk · contribs) 21:29, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
- Adrian Pollock (talk) 21:24, 11 September 2010 (UTC) (Struggling to learn to use some pattern recognition software)
- Ligong Chen (talk) 13:58, 24 September 2010 (USA Eastern time) (Personal interests mainly on the piecewise regression analysis and the fundamentals of Statistics)
- Econterms (talk) 17:12, 9 October 2010 (UTC) -- interested in economics, institutional statistical offices, clear writing and algorithms, R language
- Benwing (talk · contribs) - Making articles (esp. intros) more understandable and less technical; Bayesian statistics, stuff related to machine learning and natural language processing 10:00, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
- Talgalili (talk) 11:20, 11 December 2010 (UTC) - Currently working on my masters degree in biostatistics (at Tel-Aviv University). My (current) fields of interest are the R language, visualization, FDR procedures, and other basic traditional statistics (regression, cluster analysis and so on).
- Mathstat (talk) 17:21, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
- Sfann (talk · contribs) (Interested in the application of Statistics to ecology and other biological data.) 04:34, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
- Richard Gill (talk) 12:57, 22 February 2011 (UTC). Interested in most everything. Here are links to my home page at Leiden university, and to myself as a topic in statistics Richard Gill.
- Therhaag (talk · contribs) 20 June 2011. Interested in multivariate statistics, high energy physics and Monte Carlo methods. Member of the core developer team of the open source project TMVA - Toolkit for Multivariate Data Analysis in ROOT.
- Dldahly (talk · contribs) 01 July 2011. Interested in latent variable statistical methods for epidemiological studies, as well as spatial statistics, and functional data analysis. User of Stata, Mplus, and R. Statistical Epidemiology
- Falk Lieder (talk · contribs) 17 August 2011. Interested in Bayesian Statistics, Machine Learning, and Experimental Design.
- r_payne77 (talk · contribs) 19 August 2011. Interested in study designs, kernel machines, modelling, survival analysis.
- Testrider (talk) 13:05, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
- Statisfactions (talk · contribs) (I'm an R geek, interested in data presentation, auditory display of data, inference issues, and statistical education.) 17:21, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
- FordPrefect1979 (talk) 16:39, 16 December 2011 (UTC) I am an R and computer geek, and I'm interested in time series techniques used primarily in the physical sciences, economics, and medicine, general statistics used in the medical sciences, and the practice and teaching of statistics.
- byronshock (talk) Machine learning, nonparameteric and semiparametric methods, programming, and postsecondary statistics pedagogy
- Ca3tki (talk) 23:41, 18 February 2012 (UTC) public statistics
[edit] Open tasks
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[edit] Articles
[edit] Featured content
[edit] New articles
Please feel free to list here any new statistics-related articles that you create or come across (newer articles at the top, please) and also add them to list of statistics topics.
- Bangdiwala's B 23 FEbruary 2012
- Decoupling (probability) 18 February 2012
- Ward's method 17 February 2012
- Delaporte distribution 15 February 2012
- 2-EPT probability density function 2 February 2012
- Nonparametric skew 26 January 2012
- First-difference estimator 19 January 2012
- Common-method variance 7 January 2012
- Dynamic topic model 20 December 2011
- Approximate entropy 16 December 2011
- Look-elsewhere effect 14 December 2011
- Nearly completely decomposable Markov chain 7 December 2011
- CLs upper limits 6 December 2011
- Generalized integer gamma distribution 1 December 2011
- Greenwood statistic 29 November 2011
- Absorbing Markov chain 18 November 2011
List here older articles, recently added to the Statistics project.
- Renewal theory, noted 19 February 2012
- Trials factor, noted 26 January 2012
- Kolmogorov–Zurbenko filter, noted 25 January 2012
- Robust Bayes analysis, noted 21 January 2012
- Probability box, noted 21 January 2012
- Prior knowledge for pattern recognition, noted 16 January 2012
Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, do not have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.
[edit] New templates and categories
Please add new categories to this list as well as here.
- Category:Asymptotic statistical theory 14 March 2011
- Category:Conjugate prior distributions 28 Sept 2010
- Category:Distributions with conjugate priors 28 Sept 2010
- Template {{dice}} attempts to reduce inappropriate changes of
[[dice|die]]to[[dice|dice]]13 May 2010 - Category:Summary statistics for contingency tables 25 Feb 2010
[edit] Review and assessment
WikiProject Mathematics has a well-established sub-project for assessing articles at WikiProject Mathematics/Wikipedia 1.0 that tabulates articles tagged with {{maths rating | field=probability and statistics}}. Full details are at WikiProject Mathematics/Wikipedia 1.0/Probability and statistics.
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| Top | 3 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 19 | ||||
| High | 2 | 19 | 9 | 32 | 2 | 64 | |||
| Mid | 1 | 1 | 1 | 37 | 11 | 159 | 57 | 267 | |
| Low | 1 | 3 | 26 | 16 | 229 | 221 | 2 | 498 | |
| Total | 2 | 6 | 4 | 88 | 41 | 425 | 280 | 2 | 848 |
Other potentially useful fields instead of "probability and statistics" are: "mathematical physics" for topics in statistical mechanics; "mathematicians" for biographies.
A ranking of articles on statistical topics by recent page views is at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Statistics/Popular_pages.
[edit] Article Alerts
This section is automatically populated by a bot, and may be empty.
- Proposed deletions
- 28 Feb 2012 – Mentor (statistics) (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Czarkoff (t · c): No indication of notability, proved with references to reliable sources, discussing the subject in-depth.
- 04 Feb 2012 – Paleostatistics (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Qwfp (t · c) was deleted
- Templates for discussion
- 10 Jan 2012 – Template:NZYearbook (talk · edit · hist) TfDed by Frietjes (t · c) was closed; see discussion
- Good article nominees
- 27 Feb 2012 – Actuarial credentialing and exams (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Avraham (t · c); start discussion
- Requested moves
- 15 Feb 2012 – Standard error (statistics) (talk · edit · hist) move request by 86.143.74.161 (t · c) was closed; see discussion
- 05 Jan 2012 – Unit of analysis (talk · edit · hist) move request by Meclee (t · c) was closed; see discussion
[edit] Templates
Category:Statistics templates includes a list of templates used by this project.
[edit] Banners
If you find an article that falls under the scope of this project, feel free to add this banner to the top of its talk page by typing {{WPStatistics}} (or {{WikiProject Statistics}}), which will produce:
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Articles that show this banner on the talk page are automatically included in the WikiProject Statistics articles category.
{{Stats banner}} is intended to identify pages, other than articles, as part of WikiProject Statistics. It should be used instead of {{WPStatistics}} on categories, templates and the like. This banner should not be used on article talk pages.
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This page is part of WikiProject Statistics. Places of interest: Outline • Article • Portal • Category • WikiProject • Stubs • Cleanup • Article alerts |
{{StatsTopics}} provides navigational assistance on "List of..." articles related to statistics.
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[edit] Portal
You can insert a link to the statistics portal (like the one shown at the right) by adding {{Portal|Statistics}} to the article - usually in the "See also" section (or equivalent).
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- {{Statistics}}
- {{ProbDistributions}}
- {{Medical research studies}}
- {{Theory of probability distributions}}
- {{Statistics journals}}
- {{Least squares and regression analysis}}
- {{Experimental design}}
[edit] Infobox templates
- Keep all parameters in {{Probability distribution}} and {{Probability distribution two}} to avoid raw code for them appearing in the infobox. Leave unknown parameters blank.
- Delete inapplicable parameters in {{Infobox scientist}}. Leave applicable but unknown parameters blank.
- {{Statistical test}} Could be added, as a summary of the test statistic, the null and alternative hypothesis, distribution of the test, and maybe even son critical values.
[edit] Stub templates
- {{Probability-stub}}
- {{Statistics-stub}}
[edit] Userbox template
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[edit] Categories
[edit] Article categories
- Here is a list of statistics categories for articles.
- Please try to assign articles to an appropriate sub-category of statistics rather than the top level.
- Category:statistics is in need of reorganization. Click the "+" below to expand the category tree:
[edit] Other categories
- See Category:WikiProject Statistics for a list of administrative categories in this project.
- You can add your username to Category:Wikipedian statisticians by including "[[Category:Wikipedian statisticians]]" on your userpage.
- Articles that show the {{WPStatistics}} banner on the talk page are automatically included in Category:WikiProject Statistics articles.
[edit] Subpages
- List of all subpages of this page
[edit] Resources
[edit] Recent changes and important articles
- Recent changes related to list of statistics topics is useful if you wish to keep an eye on recent changes.
- Recent changes to Talk pages tagged with {{WikiProject Statistics}} can be used to keep an eye on recent discussions
- Popular pages for frequently accessed statistics pages.
[edit] Editing resources
See also WikiProject Mathematics/Editor resources
The following are particularly helpful regarding mathematics, but note that valuable articles need not be dominated by mathematics.
- Manual of Style for mathematical content
- Mathematical conventions
- Notation in probability and statistics
[edit] Sites from which material may be copied freely
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Statistics |
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Wikibooks has a book on the topic of |
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Wikiversity has learning materials about Probability and statistics |
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Wikiversity has learning materials about Introduction to Statistics |
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Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Statistics |
See also Public domain resources
It is believed that articles from the following sites may be copied in whole or in part with or without modification provided a citation of the source is included:
- PlanetMath: See the PlanetMath Exchange subproject, in particular 60-XX Probability theory and stochastic processes and 62-XX Statistics. Cite page and add {{planetmath}} template.
- NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods. US government site and therefore public domain. Cite page and add {{NIST-PD}} template.
[edit] Reference resources
See also WikiProject Mathematics/Reference resources
The following sites are copyrighted but may be useful as references:
[edit] Open access
- A Dictionary of Statistics. Oxford University Press, 2008. Open access via Answers.com.
- StatSci.org Directory of teaching resources
- Statistics Online Computational Resource (SOCR) from UCLA
- statistics.com Statistical Glossary
- StatSoft Electronic Statistics Textbook
- HyperStat Online Statistics Textbook
- The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice by Gerard E. Dallal, Tufts University
- SAS/STAT documentation Provides quite a lot of background on statistical procedures
- Encyclopaedia of Mathematics (see {{Springer}})
[edit] Restricted access
- Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences (Wiley Interscience)
- Encyclopedia of Biostatistics (Wiley Interscience)
[edit] Related projects
- WikiProject Mathematics
- WikiProject Probability (currently inactive)
- WP:WikiProject Science
- WP:WikiProject Philosophy
- Wikipedia:Statistics Department (statistics about Wikipedia, currently inactive)
[edit] Tools
- Main tool page: toolserver.org
- Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
- Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
- Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
- Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
[edit] External watchlist
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