The American Statistician is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering statistics published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the American...
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A statistician is a person who works with theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private and public sectors. It is common...
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Monty Hall problem (redirect from The monty hall problem)
original host, Monty Hall. The problem was originally posed (and solved) in a letter by Steve Selvin to the American Statistician in 1975. It became famous...
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Benford's law (category Use American English from July 2021)
(PDF). The American Statistician. 63 (1): 26–32. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.572.6719. doi:10.1198/tast.2009.0005. S2CID 39595550. Archived (PDF) from the original...
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Box plot (section In the case of large datasets)
Implementations of the Boxplot". The American Statistician. 43 (1): 50–54. doi:10.2307/2685173. JSTOR 2685173. Marmolejo-Ramos, F.; Tian, S. (2010). "The shifting...
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constructed in 1973 by the statistician Francis Anscombe to demonstrate both the importance of graphing data when analyzing it, and the effect of outliers...
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was an American statistician and journalist. Jones is best known as the "Jones" in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and as a co-founder of The Wall Street...
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P-value (section Testing the fairness of a coin)
Bhattacharya B, Habtzghi D (2002). "Median of the p value under the alternative hypothesis". The American Statistician. 56 (3): 202–6. doi:10.1198/000313002146...
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List of women in statistics (category Women statisticians)
Allan (1905–1952), Australian statistician and biometrician, first statistician at CSIRO Genevera Allen, American statistician, expert on interpretable learning...
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technical paper in 1951, but the statisticians Karl Pearson (in 1899) and Udny Yule (in 1903) had mentioned similar effects earlier. The name Simpson's paradox...
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Steve Selvin (category American statisticians)
an American statistician who is a professor emeritus of biostatistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Selvin joined the faculty of the School...
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Wasserstein RL, Lazar NA (2016). "The ASA's statement on p-values: context, process, and purpose" (PDF). The American Statistician. 70 (2): 129–133. doi:10.1080/00031305...
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R2", The American Statistician, Volume 48, Issue 2, 1994, pp. 113–117. Nagelkerke, N. J. D. (September 1991). "A Note on a General Definition of the Coefficient...
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March 2017) was an American statistician, a senior research fellow with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He developed the Tennessee Value-Added...
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process control (SPC) Wilkinson, L. (2006). "Revising the Pareto Chart" (PDF). The American Statistician. 60 (4): 332–334. doi:10.1198/000313006x152243. S2CID 97936...
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Rao–Blackwell theorem (section The theorem)
"Micha Mandel (2020), "The Scaled Uniform Model Revisited," The American Statistician, 74:1, 98–100: Comment". The American Statistician. 74 (3): 315. doi:10...
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Median (redirect from Variance of the median)
(link) O'Cinneide, Colm Art (1990). "The mean is within one standard deviation of any median". The American Statistician. 44 (4): 292–293. doi:10.1080/00031305...
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Jacob Cohen (April 20, 1923 – January 20, 1998) was an American psychologist and statistician best known for his work on statistical power and effect size...
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Two envelopes problem (section The switching argument)
American Statistician, 47 (2): 160, doi:10.1080/00031305.1991.10475791. Ross (1994), "Letter to editor and response", The American Statistician, 48 (3):...
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Bayes' theorem (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
ISBN 978-0321986498. Edwards, A. W. F. (1986). "Is the Reference in Hartley (1749) to Bayesian Inference?". The American Statistician. 40 (2): 109–110. doi:10.1080/00031305...
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1991). "Statistical Reversion Toward the Mean: More Universal than Regression Toward the Mean". The American Statistician. 45 (4): 344–346. doi:10.2307/2684474...
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Kurtosis (category Use American English from January 2019)
The American Statistician, 42 (2): 111–119, doi:10.2307/2684482, JSTOR 2684482 Darlington, Richard B. (1970), "Is Kurtosis Really 'Peakedness'?", The...
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Delta method (section Proof in the univariate case)
the Editor". The American Statistician. 67 (3): 190. doi:10.1080/00031305.2013.820668. S2CID 219596186. Kelley, Truman L. (1928). Crossroads in the Mind...
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(2021), "A probabilistic approach to the moments of binomial random variables and application", The American Statistician, 75 (1): 101–103, doi:10.1080/00031305...
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Mathematics, Philadelphia Pukelsheim, Friedrich (May 1994). "The Three Sigma Rule". The American Statistician. 48 (2): 88–91. doi:10.1080/00031305.1994.10476030...
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Siddhartha; Greenberg, Edward (1995). "Understanding the Metropolis–Hastings Algorithm". The American Statistician. 49 (4): 327–335. doi:10.1080/00031305.1995...
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Standard error (redirect from Standard error of the mean)
William (1976). "The Standard Error of the Mean and the Difference Between Means for Finite Populations". The American Statistician. 30 (2): 96–97. doi:10...
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Nolan, D. & Temple Lang, D. (2010). "Computing in the Statistics Curricula", The American Statistician 64 (2), pp.97-107. Wegman, Edward J. “Computational...
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Samuel Sanford Shapiro (redirect from Samuel Shapiro (statistician))
Samuel Sanford Shapiro (July 13, 1930 – November 5, 2023) was an American statistician and engineer. He was a professor emeritus of statistics at Florida...
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Statistics but Dissimilar Graphics: A follow up to the Anscombe dataset". The American Statistician. 61 (3): 248–254. doi:10.1198/000313007X220057. JSTOR 27643902...
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