Statistics Glossary

A statistics glossary is a technical term glossary for some portion of statistics terminology.

• Context:
  • It can (often) be a part of a Statistics Textbook (e.g. Levine & Stephan, 2005).
• Example(s):
  • (Easton & McColl, 1997).
  • (David, 1995).
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Statistics Dictionary, such as (Upton & Cook, 2008) or (Everitt, 2006)
  • a Data Mining Glossary.
  • a Machine Learning Glossary.
  • a Mathematics Glossary.
• See: Statistics Textbook, Statistics Encyclopedia.

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References

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_probability_and_statistics

2009

• (Dear, 2009) ⇒ Keith Dear. (2009 snapshot). “Surfstat Glossary." University of Newcastle, Australia.
• StatSoft's Statistics Glossary http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/glosfra.HTML
• http://www.oswego.edu/~kane/econometrics/glossaries.htm
• M. Tevfik Dorak. (2009). “Common Concepts in Statistics." http://dorakmt.tripod.com/mtd/glosstat.html
• Thomas Minka. (2009). “A Statistical Learning/Pattern Recognition Glossary." http://dorakmt.tripod.com/mtd/glosstat.html
• statistics.com. “Statistical Glossary." http://www.statistics.com/resources/glossary/fulllist.php3
• The Lottery Institute. “Lottery Terms." http://members.tripod.com/~TheLotteryInstitute/glossary.htm

2007

• (Howell, 2007a) ⇒ David C. Howell. (2007). “Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, 7th edition - Glossary." Wadsworth Publishing. ISBN:0495811254

1997

• (Easton & McColl, 1997) ⇒ Valerie J. Easton, and John H. McColl. (1997). “Statistics Glossary v1.1.". The STEPS Project.

1995

• (David, 1995) ⇒ Herbert A. David. (1995). “First (?) Occurrence of Common Terms in Mathematical Statistics." The American Statistician, 49(2).

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