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Statistical model
A statistical model, also called a probabilistic or probability model, is a family of probability distributions describing how observed data might have been generated, indexed by a parameter.
Statistical parameter
A statistical parameter, also called a population parameter, is a fixed quantity that describes a probability distribution or a numerical characteristic of a population, such as a mean.
Statistical process control
Statistical process control, also known as statistical quality control, uses statistical techniques, especially control charts, to monitor and control processes, distinguishing ordinary variation from real change.
Statistical requirements in pharmaceutical regulatory submissions
Statistical requirements in pharmaceutical regulatory submissions are the quantitative analysis rules FDA, EMA, and ICH expect drug applications to follow for bioequivalence, stability, and CMC data.
Statistical review and misuse of statistics in medical research
Statistical review is the specialized checking of design, analysis, and reporting in medical research, introduced because poor statistical practices often go unnoticed by traditional peer reviewers.
Statistical significance
Statistical significance is a property of a hypothesis-testing result whose p-value falls below a threshold such as 0.05, conventionally set by R. A. Fisher in 1925.
Statistical societies and professional bodies
Statistical societies and professional bodies are organizations serving the statistics profession through journals, conferences, ethics codes, and accreditation, ranging from the International Statistical Institute to national bodies like the American Statistical Association.
Statistical Society of Canada
The Statistical Society of Canada, also known as the Société statistique du Canada, is the national professional society for statisticians in Canada, founded in 1977.
Statistician
A statistician is a professional who develops or applies statistical and mathematical methods to collect, organize, and interpret numerical data, usually requiring a master's degree.
Statistics
Statistics, also called statistical science, is the science of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data under uncertainty, spanning descriptive summaries and inference about populations from samples.
Statistics and Computing
Statistics and Computing is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed journal published by Springer since 1991, covering statistical concepts in computing science and the use of computers in data modeling, prediction, and analysis.
Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007
The Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 is a United Kingdom act governing official statistics, which created the UK Statistics Authority and took effect in 2008.
Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada, also known as StatCan, is Canada's central statistical agency, created by the Statistics Act of 1971, which conducts the national census every five years.
Statistics Commission
The Statistics Commission was a UK public body, established in 2000 to oversee the Office for National Statistics and replaced by the UK Statistics Authority in 2008.
Statistics Denmark
Statistics Denmark (Danmarks Statistik) is the national statistical institute of Denmark, an independent state institution founded in 1850 that produces and publishes official statistics on Danish society.
Statistics Finland
Statistics Finland (Tilastokeskus) is the national statistical institute of Finland, founded in 1865 and operating under the Ministry of Finance, producing impartial statistics on Finnish society.
Statistics in Medicine
Statistics in Medicine is a peer-reviewed journal published by John Wiley & Sons since 1982, covering statistical methods applied to medicine, including the landmark 1986 DerSimonian and Laird random-effects model for meta-analysis.
Statistics in regulatory affairs
Statistics in regulatory affairs covers the rules and guidance for producing, quality-assuring, and reporting statistical data in regulated settings, spanning EU fines, US statutory duties, and the UK's Office for Statistics Regulation.
Statistics Korea
Statistics Korea (통계청), commonly abbreviated KOSTAT, is the South Korean government agency that sets statistical standards and produces the country's economic and social statistics, operating the KOSIS portal.
Statistics Netherlands
Statistics Netherlands, Dutch: Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, or CBS, is the national statistical institute of the Netherlands, founded in 1899 and based in The Hague and Heerlen.
Statistics New Zealand
Statistics New Zealand, also known as Stats NZ, is the national statistical office of New Zealand, producing official statistics on population, the economy, society, and the environment.
Statistics Norway
Statistics Norway (Norwegian: Statistisk sentralbyrå, SSB) is the government agency responsible for Norway's official statistics. Founded in 1876, it reports to the Ministry of Finance and is headquartered in Oslo.
Statistics Poland
Statistics Poland (Główny Urząd Statystyczny, GUS) is the central statistical institution of Poland, founded on 13 July 1918. It conducts official surveys and the national census, and runs the Local Data Bank.
Statistics South Africa
Statistics South Africa, known as Stats SA, is the South African government department that produces official statistics, including the national census, under the Statistics Act of 1999.
Statistics Sweden
Statistics Sweden, also known as Statistiska centralbyrån or SCB, is the Swedish government agency responsible for official statistics, founded in 1858 and based in Solna and Örebro.
statsmodels
statsmodels is a Python package complementing SciPy for statistical computations, offering regression, time series, and discrete models, statistical tests, and diagnostics, with an emphasis on inference rather than prediction alone.
Steepest descent method (optimization)
The steepest descent method is an iterative first-order method for minimizing a differentiable function by moving opposite the gradient; it dates to the mid-19th century and underlies gradient-based training.
Stefan Banach
Stefan Banach (1892–1945) was a self-taught Polish mathematician who founded modern functional analysis, defined Banach spaces, proved the Banach–Tarski paradox, and led the Lwów School of Mathematics.
Stefan problem
The Stefan problem is a partial differential equation problem with a moving boundary, classically modeling heat flow during phase change like melting ice, named after Jožef Stefan.
Stein's method
Stein's method, also known as the Chen–Stein method, is a probability theory technique introduced by Charles Stein in 1972 for measuring how closely one distribution approximates another.