Wikipedia:WikiProject Statistics
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Welcome to WikiProject Statistics
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 1 December 2023, there are 5,092 articles within the scope of WikiProject Statistics, of which 3 are featured and 21 are good articles. This makes up 0.08% of the articles on Wikipedia, 0.03% of all featured articles and lists, and 0.05% of all good articles. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 12,592 pages in the project.
A ranking of articles on statistical topics by recent page views is at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Statistics/Popular_pages.
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 over 2750 items, including some redirects (18 February 2013: was 2642 on 17 October 2011; 2233 on 29 July 2009; 1731 on 31 December 2008; and 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 lists of mathematics topics for examples.
Some priority articles that the project hopes to make progress with are those in:
- Category:Statistics stubs (315 articles)
- Category:Statistics articles needing expert attention (21 articles)
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:
- {{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)
- Tag the discussion page with
{{WPStatistics|importance= | class=}}- and (if there is substantial mathematics content)
{{maths rating|field=probability and statistics | importance= | class=}}- using appropriate values for the class and importance parameters as described here.
General statistics articles
- Use one or more sub-category of Category:Statistics
- Tag stubs with {{statistics-stub}}
Probability distributions
- Suggestions regarding the structure of articles about probability distributions are here
- Include either of these infoboxes (feel free to leave some parameters blank):
- Add an appropriate sub-category of Category:Probability distributions
- Tag stubs with {{probability-stub}}
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}}
Open tasks
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Here are some tasks awaiting attention:
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Administrative tasks
- Read WikiProject Council/Guide/WikiProject
- Edit, expand and amend this project page or any of its subpages
- Add the {{WPStatistics}} banner to the talk page of articles in List of statistics articles
- Invite editors with established statistical expertise to participate
- Discuss the best structure for article assessment
- Reorganize Category:Statistics and Category:Probability and statistics
- Expand the list above (and this one!)
- Set watches on these two lists to be informed of updates
New articles
An automatically generated list of new articles is available here, based on these rules.
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.
- Bayesian hierarchical modeling 12 May 2014
- Foundations of statistics 2 Sept 2013 major expansion from stub
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.
- New templates and categories
Please add new categories to this list as well as here.
Hot articles
| 12 edits | American Community Survey |
| 9 edits | List of countries and dependencies by population |
| 8 edits | Sleeping Beauty problem |
| 8 edits | Itô's lemma |
| 8 edits | A Treatise on Probability |
These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 1 December 2023 by HotArticlesBot.
Article assessment
Statistics WikiProject
The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Statistics}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Statistics articles by quality and Category:Statistics articles by importance.
Currently 6,337 pages have been tagged with the {{WikiProject Statistics}} template. Of these, 329 (5%) have not been assessed for quality and 816 (13%) have not been assessed for importance.
A log of recent changes in assessment is available here.
| Statistics articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
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1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| FL
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1 | 1 | |||||
 GA
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1 | 5 | 14 | 1 | 21 | ||
| B | 48 | 53 | 56 | 87 | 7 | 251 | |
| C | 35 | 167 | 216 | 385 | 36 | 839 | |
| Start | 6 | 172 | 392 | 1,486 | 333 | 2,389 | |
| Stub | 15 | 89 | 936 | 2 | 110 | 1,152 | |
| List | 1 | 12 | 24 | 75 | 9 | 121 | |
| Category | 685 | 685 | |||||
| Disambig | 15 | 15 | |||||
| File | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Project | 2 | 31 | 33 | ||||
| Redirect | 4 | 13 | 40 | 336 | 393 | ||
| Template | 1 | 55 | 56 | ||||
| NA | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Other | 1 | 38 | 39 | ||||
| Assessed | 90 | 425 | 798 | 3,026 | 1,167 | 496 | 6,002 |
| Unassessed | 9 | 320 | 329 | ||||
| Total | 90 | 425 | 798 | 3,035 | 1,167 | 816 | 6,331 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 23,014 | Ω = 4.94 | |||||
Article alerts
Articles for deletion
- 05 Nov 2023 – Roxana Moslehi (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Plandu (t · c) was closed as keep by Daniel (t · c) on 13 Nov 2023; see discussion (6 participants)
Proposed deletions
Templates for discussion
- 30 Oct 2023 – Template:WikiProject Statistics/class (talk · edit · hist) TfDed by Gonnym (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Requested moves
- 30 Oct 2023 – Mathematical modelling of infectious diseases (talk · edit · hist) move request to Disease modeling by Bluerasberry (t · c) was not moved; see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 30 Nov 2023 – Variance of the mean and predicted responses (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Simple linear regression by Fgnievinski (t · c); see discussion
- 26 Sep 2023 – Regenerative process (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Renewal process by Closed Limelike Curves (t · c); see discussion
- 22 Aug 2023 – Correlation does not imply causation (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Causal analysis by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
- 22 Aug 2023 – Causal analysis (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Correlation does not imply causation by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
- 14 Jul 2023 – Strong prior (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Prior probability by Silvestertaylor (t · c); see discussion
- 24 May 2023 – Kolmogorov equations (continuous-time Markov chains) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Kolmogorov equations by Cosmia Nebula (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 10 Jan 2022 – Millennials (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by A. C. Santacruz (t · c); see discussion
- 01 Mar 2021 – Ratio distribution (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Fgnievinski (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 30 Nov 2023 – Draft:QualCoder (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Adammmoi (t · c)
- 11 Oct 2023 – Draft:Herbert Glejser (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Grunwalderhof (t · c) was moved to Herbert Glejser (talk · edit · hist) by WikiOriginal-9 (t · c) on 06 Nov 2023
- 24 Sep 2023 – Draft:Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Arijit11dey2001 (t · c) was declined by WikiOriginal-9 (t · c) on 07 Nov 2023
- 17 Sep 2023 – Draft:Generalized Exponential Distribution (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Arijit11dey2001 (t · c) was declined by WikiOriginal-9 (t · c) on 07 Nov 2023
- 16 Sep 2023 – Draft:Bayesian Asymptotics (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Arijit11dey2001 (t · c) was declined by WikiOriginal-9 (t · c) on 06 Nov 2023
- 12 Sep 2023 – Draft:List of Borussia Dortmund records and statistics (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by IronMaximus (t · c) was moved to List of Borussia Dortmund records and statistics (talk · edit · hist) by Vanderwaalforces (t · c) on 07 Nov 2023
- 09 Sep 2023 – Draft:Lamar Richardson (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by ILP2023 (t · c) was declined by Vanderwaalforces (t · c) on 05 Nov 2023
Featured content
 | This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged (e.g. {{WikiProject Statistics}}) or categorized correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options. |
Featured articles
Former featured articles
- Featured lists
Good articles
- 1961 Indonesian census
- AP Statistics
- Muthu Alagappan
- Algorithmic bias
- Ars Conjectandi
- Behavioural genetics
- Convex hull
- Demographic history of Scotland
- Demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Fleiss' kappa
- Hidden Markov model
- JMP (statistical software)
- Maximum spacing estimation
- Metallic Metals Act
- Nearest-neighbor chain algorithm
- Dorothy P. Rice
- SAS (software)
- SAS Institute
- Shapley–Folkman lemma
- Theil–Sen estimator
- Francis Amasa Walker
Former good articles
Did you know? articles
- 1703 Icelandic census
- 1961 Indonesian census
- Muthu Alagappan
- Algorithmic bias
- Bivariate analysis
- Kenneth A. Bollen
- Bradley–Terry model
- Crime statistics in the United Kingdom
- Demographics of Canada
- Aryeh Dvoretzky
- Gustav Elfving
- Extended Kalman filter
- Fang Kaitai
- Fertility factor (demography)
- GRIM test
- Alec Gallup
- Geometric median
- Geometric stable distribution
- Amy H. Herring
- Hierarchical generalized linear model
- Historical demography
- History of randomness
- Robert V. Hogg
- Holtsmark distribution
- In silico clinical trials
- Iterative proportional fitting
- Jackknife resampling
- Jadad scale
- Svante Janson
- Journal of the Royal Statistical Society
- Least-squares spectral analysis
- Alfred Legoyt
- Log-Cauchy distribution
- Henry Mann
- Misleading graph
- James P. M. Ntozi
- Occupancy frequency distribution
- Jan Piekałkiewicz
- Race and ethnicity in censuses
- Randomised decision rule
- Rating scales for depression
- Revolution Analytics
- Sampling frame
- Schuette–Nesbitt formula
- Shapley–Folkman lemma
- Square root biased sampling
- Statistics of Deadly Quarrels
- Theil–Sen estimator
- Ulpian's life table
- Univariate analysis
- Variable and attribute (research)
- Francis Amasa Walker
- Working–Hotelling procedure
Featured pictures
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Anscombe's quartet 3
Related projects and portals
- Projects
- WikiProject Mathematics
- WikiProject Probability (currently inactive)
- WikiProject Science
- WikiProject Philosophy
- Statistics Department (statistics about Wikipedia, currently inactive)
Media related to Statistics at Wikimedia Commons
- Portals
Categories
Article categories
- Here is a list of statistics categories for articles.
- Please try to assign articles to an appropriate sub-category of Category:Statistics rather than the top level.
Other categories
- All categories tagged with the {{WPStatistics}} project template appear in Category:Category-Class Statistics articles.
- 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.
