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 10 November 2024, there are 5,253 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 13,450 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 (314 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):
- 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
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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
| 21 edits | Redskins Rule |
| 14 edits | Itô's lemma |
| 9 edits | Cross-validation (statistics) |
| 9 edits | Nate Silver |
| 7 edits | Normal distribution |
These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 9 November 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 6,749 pages have been tagged with the {{WikiProject Statistics}} template. Of these, 4 (0%) have not been assessed for quality and 905 (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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| 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 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 1 | 22 | |
| B | 48 | 57 | 56 | 96 | 24 | 281 | |
| C | 33 | 171 | 223 | 427 | 106 | 960 | |
| Start | 7 | 168 | 389 | 1,517 | 568 | 2,649 | |
| Stub | 14 | 80 | 914 | 191 | 1,199 | ||
| List | 1 | 16 | 24 | 79 | 2 | 13 | 135 |
| Category | 889 | 889 | |||||
| Disambig | 14 | 14 | |||||
| File | 5 | 5 | |||||
| Project | 1 | 33 | 34 | ||||
| Redirect | 1 | 8 | 22 | 82 | 351 | 464 | |
| Template | 60 | 60 | |||||
| NA | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Other | 21 | 21 | |||||
| Assessed | 91 | 436 | 801 | 3,130 | 1,377 | 903 | 6,738 |
| Unassessed | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||
| Total | 91 | 436 | 801 | 3,132 | 1,377 | 905 | 6,742 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 25,166 | Ω = 4.92 | |||||
Article alerts
Templates for discussion
- 25 Oct 2024 – Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/United States daily deaths post emergency (talk · edit · hist) was TfDed by Jonesey95 (t · c); see discussion
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
- 18 Jul 2024 – Loss function (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Scoring rule 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
- 08 Apr 2024 – Scoring rule (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Loss functions for classification by Biggerj1 (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
- 07 Nov 2024 – Draft:Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by KMerrigold (t · c)
- 27 Oct 2024 – Draft:Henry Neave (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Broken chords (t · c)
- 16 Oct 2024 – Draft:Urban Scaling (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by AnGoLiSjo (t · c)
- 29 Oct 2024 – Draft:List of Lillestrøm SK seasons (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Ledaaaaa (t · c) was moved to List of Lillestrøm SK seasons (talk · edit · hist) by SafariScribe (t · c) on 30 Oct 2024
- 26 Oct 2024 – Draft:Gregory J. Matthews (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Qntkhvn (t · c) was declined by Ldm1954 (t · c) on 30 Oct 2024
- 02 Oct 2024 – Draft:Iman-Conover method (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Thorpn86 (t · c) was declined by Tavantius (t · c) on 06 Nov 2024
- 12 Sep 2024 – Draft:Product Market Regulation indicators (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Regulation100924 (t · c) was accepted to Product market regulation indicator (talk · edit · hist) by Alpha3031 (t · c) on 18 Oct 2024
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
- 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
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
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.
