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Welcome to WikiProject Statistics

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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 11 June 2024, there are 5,179 articles within the scope of WikiProject Statistics, of which 3 are featured and 21 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, etcetera, there are 13,256 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 (308 articles)
Category:Statistics articles needing expert attention (26 articles)

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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}}

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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 cleanupishere. 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 :

Verify :

Sampling distribution case of sampling from a finite population?

Other :

Attend to
- Category:Statistics articles needing expert attention (26 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

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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.

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Hot articles

35 edits	Carl Friedrich Gauss
11 edits	Opinion polling for the next Israeli legislative election
10 edits	Order of approximation
8 edits	Generalised hyperbolic distribution
8 edits	Demographics of Afghanistan

These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 11 June 2024 by HotArticlesBot.

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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 6,649 pages have been tagged with the {{WikiProject Statistics}} template. Of these, 151 (2%) have not been assessed for quality and 881 (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
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		1	1				2
FL				1			1
GA		1	5	14		1	21
B	49	54	56	92		15	266
C	33	170	225	403		77	908
Start	7	171	385	1,498		462	2,523
Stub		14	82	911		167	1,174
List	1	16	24	76	2	14	133
Category					878		878
Disambig				1	13		14
File					4		4
Project			2		32		34
Redirect	1	6	22	80	346		455
Template				1	57		58
NA					1		1
Other					18		18
Assessed	91	433	802	3,077	1,351	736	6,490
Unassessed				6		144	150
Total	91	433	802	3,083	1,351	880	6,640
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 24,131			Ω = 4.93

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Article alerts

Articles for deletion

05 Jun 2024 – Leave-one-out error (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Manyyassin (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)

Proposed deletions

03 Jun 2024 – Statistical parsing (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by HyperAccelerated (t · c) was deleted

Redirects for discussion

09 Apr 2024 – List of countries by GDP (PPP (talk · edit · hist) →List of countries by GDP (PPP) was RfDed by Utopes (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

30 Apr 2024 – Carl Friedrich Gauss (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Dioskorides (t · c); see discussion
09 May 2024 – Design effect (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by Talgalili (t · c) was not promoted by Phlsph7 (t · c), see discussion

Articles to be merged

08 Apr 2024 – Scoring rule (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Loss functions for classificationbyBiggerj1 (t · c); see discussion
04 Mar 2024 – Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Dutch bookbyClosed Limelike Curves (t · c); see discussion
04 Mar 2024 – Dutch book (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy)byClosed Limelike Curves (t · c); see discussion
07 Jan 2024 – Poincaré plot (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Poincaré mapby46.211.114.171 (t · c); see discussion
30 Nov 2023 – Variance of the mean and predicted responses (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Simple linear regressionbyFgnievinski (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

01 Jun 2024 – Draft:QualCoder (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by AndrzejSN (t · c)
12 May 2024 – Draft:Rao–Sandelius Shuffle (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Kylebutt (t · c)
08 Apr 2024 – Draft:Aliasing (factorial experiments) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Johsebb (t · c)
24 Feb 2024 – Draft:Pekka K. Sinervo (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by PSinervo (t · c)
01 Nov 2023 – Draft:List of Slovaks in the AHL (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Hey man im josh (t · c)
06 Jun 2024 – Draft:Hal S. Stern (Statistician) (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Garden Lover Asia (t · c) was deleted
05 Jun 2024 – Draft:Henry Braun (statistician) (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Garden Lover Asia (t · c) was declined by User4edits (t · c) on 06 Jun 2024
03 Jun 2024 – Draft:Gower's distance (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Homo Ex Machina (t · c) was accepted to Gower's distance (talk · edit · hist)byRatnahastin (t · c) on 04 Jun 2024
07 May 2024 – Draft:Danyu Lin (biostatistician) (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Tcald (t · c) was moved to Danyu Lin (biostatistician) (talk · edit · hist)byQcne (t · c) on 04 Jun 2024

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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.