The Statistics Project

This is an attempt to catalog all the nodes relating to the mathematical study of statistics and probability on E2. Needless to say, it is doomed to be incomplete, unless you help. Please /msg me with any additions to this list!

Some basic statistical ideas:

• Addition law
• Anova
• A priori probability
• Average
• Bayes' Theorem
• Benford's Law
• Binomial distribution
• Ceiling effect
• Central Limit Theorem
• Chance
• Chi square analysis
• Confidence Interval
• Correlation
• Distribution
• Expectation value
• Ex post facto
• Floor effect
• Frequency
• The Galton quincunx
• Galton-Watson process
• Gaussian Distribution
• Law of large numbers
• Likert Scale
• LoD
• Mean
• Median
• Mode
• Neyman-Pearson Lemma
• Percent
• Poisson distribution
• Population
• Probability
• Probability puzzles
• Probability theory
• Pseudo-random
• Ratio
• Regression
• Sample
• Set
• Simpson's paradox
• standardizing data
• statistic
• Statistical
• Statistical sampling
• Statistician
• Statistics
• Stochastic
• Subset
• T Score
• T-test
• Uncertainty
• Variance
• z score

Some basic statisticians:

• Thomas Bayes 1702-1761
• Ronald A. Fisher 1890-1962
• Walter A. Shewhart 1891-1967
• William S. Gosset 1876-1937
• Pierre LaPlace 1749-1827
• Blaise Pascal 1623-1662
• Karl Pearson 1857-1936
• John W. Tukey 1915-2000

And here's what all those statistical thingees are used for:

• Abuses of statistics
• Bathroom Statistics
• Everything Statistics
• Experiments and Surveys
• Fermi-Dirac statistics
• Putting Statistics
• Using Bayes' theorem and the Neyman-Pearson Lemma to decide
• U.S. murder rate

And a few puzzles:

• Bertrand's Box Paradox
• Monty Hall Problem
• Two Envelope Paradox