Wikipedia:WikiProject Statistics

This is the WikiProject on the mathematical science of statistics. For sources of statistics about Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Statistics.

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 29 December 2024, there are 5,263 articles within the scope of WikiProject Statistics, of which 3 are featured and 22 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, etc., there are 11,668 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 (27 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):

• {{Infobox probability distribution}} (e.g., Negative binomial distribution)
• {{Infobox probability distribution 2}} (e.g., Geometric distribution)

• 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

Article-related tasks

Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : See requested articles in statistics, and in econometrics Cleanup : Articles in WikiProject Statistics are regularly scanned automatically for cleanup templates. A list of statistics articles that need cleanup is here. You can help by reviewing the list and correcting any deficiencies. Expand : Outline of statistics Outline of regression analysis Multivariate regression model needs detailed formulae for multivariate case Directional statistics to include measures of dispersion for circular data Conjoint analysis improve statement problem to be solved (more maths?) Overfitting could tie in test sets, the effects of high model complexity and curse of dimensionality as well as how adding noise sometimes alleviates the problem. Ancestral graph Spatial descriptive statistics which has essentially no content Likelihood function to remove bias towards Bayesian-only context mixed model spun out of redirect to multilevel model, but needs expansion Labour Force Survey needs expanding, including to improve geographic coverage Various Tsallis Pages, documented on Talk:Tsallis distribution#Tsallis Pages Joint probability distribution needs some examples, better examples, perhaps an explanation of uses and relationships with other concepts in statistics Bayesian linear regression alternative priors, advanced regression models, marginal densities, prior and posterior predictive density Monte Carlo sampling: Application to Approximate Bayesian Inference needs more explanation Approximate Bayesian Computation Cohen's h Double descent Merge : Financial modeling and Modeling and analysis of financial markets Monte Carlo methods in finance and Monte Carlo methods for option pricing Variogram (which is redirected from semivariogram) and Semivariance Linear predictor function into Linear model Split : Parameter into separate articles accessible from disambig pages Effect size into separate articles for each metric Stubs : Statistics stubs Statistician stubs Probability stubs Verify : Sampling distribution case of sampling from a finite population? Other : Attend to Category:Statistics articles needing expert attention (27 articles) Category:Probability articles needing expert attention (1 articles) Redirects to convert to articles, or otherwise: Influence function (statistics) — currently redirects to Robust statistic hazard function Time-series regression presently redirects to Time-series Ridge regression presently redirects to Tikhonov regularization Regression splines presently redirects to Smoothing splines Fisher's protected LSD presently redirects to Post hoc analysis Hill estimator presently redirects to Heavy-tailed distribution Weibull chart presently redirects to Weibull distribution Groups of articles with substantial overlap: Truncation (statistics) and Truncated distribution Multiple testing correction and Multiple comparisons : need to separate multiple testing from “finding the best” Efficiency (statistics) and efficient estimator Variance and standard deviation

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

60 edits	Demographics of the United States
34 edits	List of countries by past and projected GDP (nominal) per capita
17 edits	Demographics of Ukraine
11 edits	Normal distribution
11 edits	List of countries and dependencies by population

These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 28 December 2024 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 6,927 pages have been tagged with the {{WikiProject Statistics}} template. Of these, 6 (0%) have not been assessed for quality and 911 (13%) have not been assessed for importance.

A log of recent changes in assessment is available here.

Statistics articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		1	1				2
FL				1			1
GA	1	1	5	14		1	22
B	48	57	56	96		24	281
C	33	173	225	429		109	969
Start	7	165	393	1,515		568	2,648
Stub		14	77	916		191	1,198
List	1	16	24	79	2	13	135
Category					955		955
Disambig					9		9
File					5		5
Project					33		33
Redirect	1	7	19	74	318		419
Template					91		91
NA		1	3	10	109		123
Other					21		21
Assessed	91	435	803	3,134	1,543	906	6,912
Unassessed				2		3	5
Total	91	435	803	3,136	1,543	909	6,917
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 25,196			Ω = 4.92

Article alerts

Articles to be merged

• 05 Aug 2024 – Naive Bayes spam filtering (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Naive Bayes classifier by Closed Limelike Curves (t · c); see discussion
• 07 Jul 2024 – Mixing (mathematics) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Mixing (physics) by Mathwriter2718 (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 08 May 2024 – Mann–Whitney U test (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Closed Limelike Curves (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

• 25 Dec 2024 – Draft:Gregory J. Matthews (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Qntkhvn (t · c)
• 25 Dec 2024 – Draft:Jim Pitman (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Rhubarbmuncher (t · c)
• 13 Dec 2024 – Draft:Table 2 Fallacy (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 331dot (t · c)
• 03 Dec 2024 – Draft:Bayes Space (statistics) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Sprint99 (t · c)
• 12 Nov 2024 – Draft:Global Sensitivity Analysis. The Primer (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Gipsywriting (t · c)
• undated – Draft:German Business Panel (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC
• 22 Dec 2024 – Draft:Clinical Versus Statistical Prediction (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by FelixKerscher (t · c) was declined by CSMention269 (t · c) on 23 Dec 2024
• 17 Dec 2024 – Draft:George Bohrnstedt (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Larrywilliamsttu (t · c) was accepted to George Bohrnstedt (talk · edit · hist) by SafariScribe (t · c) on 18 Dec 2024
• 13 Dec 2024 – Draft:Data Science Discovery (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c) was declined by Felix QW (t · c) on 27 Dec 2024
• 12 Nov 2024 – Draft:Nepal In Data (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Straw Holdings (t · c) was declined by Theroadislong (t · c) on 05 Dec 2024

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Featured content

Featured articles

• Actuary
• Confirmation bias

Former featured articles

• Bioinformatics
• Carl Friedrich Gauss
• Infinite monkey theorem
• Margin of error
• Monty Hall problem

Featured lists

• Timeline of the far future

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
• Carl Friedrich Gauss
• 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

• Mathematics
• Probability theory
• Statistics

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
• Carl Friedrich Gauss
• 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
• Occupational epidemiology
• Outcome switching
• 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

• Mathematics portal

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.