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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.

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 2233 items, including some redirects (29 July 2009: was 1731 on 31 December 2008: was 1213 on 04 August 2008: was 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 list of mathematics articles and lists of mathematics topics.

Some priority articles that the project hopes to make progress with are those in:

• Category:Statistics stubs
• Category:Statistics articles needing expert attention

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)

• Add {{WPStatistics}} to the article's discussion page
• Tag the discussion page with

{{maths rating|field=probability and statistics | importance= | class=}}

using appropriate values for the class and importance parameters as described here.

• Use one or more sub-category of Category:Statistics
• Tag stubs with {{statistics-stub}}

• Include either the {{Probability distribution}} (e.g., Negative binomial distribution) or the {{Probability distribution two}} (e.g., Geometric distribution) infobox (feel free to leave some parameters blank)
• Add an appropriate sub-category of Category:Probability distributions
• Tag stubs with {{probability-stub}}

• 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}}

Please feel free to add (or delete) your name below, and to indicate any areas of particular interest. You may also wish to add {{User WikiProject Statistics}} to your User page, which will add your name to Category:WikiProject Statistics members.

The first eleven names below are of those who signed up during the initial discussion on WikiProject Council/Proposals, as archived at /Proposal.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Statistics.

1. Qwfp (talk · contribs) 10:21, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
2. Salix alba (talk · contribs) 18:43, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
3. O18 (talk · contribs) 00:31, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
4. Baccyak4H (talk · contribs) 02:31, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
5. Tayste (talk · contribs) 05:09, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
6. Petergans (talk · contribs) 07:55, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
7. Johnbibby (talk · contribs) 15:37, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
8. Michael Hardy (talk · contribs) 20:12, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
9. Shirahadasha (talk · contribs) 13:03, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
10. Melcombe (talk · contribs) 16:59, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
11. Btyner (talk · contribs) 02:20, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
12. Coppertwig (talk · contribs) 22:50, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
13. Avenue (talk · contribs) 01:55, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
14. EdJohnston (talk · contribs) 04:06, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
15. Zvika (talk · contribs) 17:21, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
16. Billjefferys (talk · contribs) 22:12, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
17. Shanbhag.rohan (talk · contribs)
18. Statprof (talk · contribs) 15:15, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
19. 3mta3 (talk · contribs) 12:04, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
20. Fangz (talk · contribs) 15:26, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
21. Bluemaster (talk · contribs) 13:51, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
22. Doncram (talk · contribs) 23:57, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
23. Avraham (talk · contribs) 02:43, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
24. Wolf87 (talk) 01:55, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
25. thesoxlost (talk · contribs) 22:02, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
26. --Aredgers (talk) 23:10, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
27. Intersofia (talk · contribs)15:19, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
28. Robek2020 (talk · contribs)12:56, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
29. Jollyroger131 (talk · contribs) 05:24, 23 April 2009
30. skbkekas (talk · contribs)
31. Aetheling (talk · contribs) 15 June 2009
32. Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk · contribs) 25 June 2009
33. stpasha (talk ≠ contribs) 1^st July 2009
34. Hanspi (talk) 06:03, 25 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
35. L.A.Bachevskij (talk • contribs) 17:07, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
36. Rlendog (talk) 03:10, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
37. Dbhart42 (talk · contribs) 18:58, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
38. Cordless Larry (talk · contribs) - interested in the institutional aspects of statistics, e.g. censuses, national statistical offices. 15:31, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
39. kjetil1001 (talk · contribs) --Kjetil Halvorsen 22:29, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
40. Kathryn Tzvia (talk · contribs) 05:30, 28 January 2010
41. Mike409 (talk · contribs) 11:22, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
42. Owensmartin (talk) 20:47, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
43. JRonimoh (talk) 20:47, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
44. P64 (talk) 20:58, 12 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
45. Liz111178 (talk · contribs) 4 June 2010
46. Jucypsycho (talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on cluster analysis) 04:19, 11 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
47. Npkswami (talk · contribs)
48. Jim.Callahan,Orlando (talk) (I am interested in working on R language (including examples) and econometrics.) 16:49, 5 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
49. Paul Scheer (talk · contribs) 21:29, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
50. Adrian Pollock (talk) 21:24, 11 September 2010 (UTC) (Struggling to learn to use some pattern recognition software)[reply]
51. Ligong Chen (talk) 13:58, 24 September 2010 (USA Eastern time) (Personal interests mainly on the piecewise regression analysis and the fundamentals of Statistics)
52. Econterms (talk) 17:12, 9 October 2010 (UTC) -- interested in economics, institutional statistical offices, clear writing and algorithms, R language[reply]
53. Benwing (talk · contribs) - Making articles (esp. intros) more understandable and less technical; Bayesian statistics, stuff related to machine learning and natural language processing 10:00, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
54. Talgalili (talk) 11:20, 11 December 2010 (UTC) - Currently working on my masters degree in biostatistics (at Tel-Aviv University). My (current) fields of interest are the R language, visualization, FDR procedures, and other basic traditional statistics (regression, cluster analysis and so on).[reply]
55. Mathstat (talk) 17:21, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
56. Sfann (talk · contribs) (Interested in the application of Statistics to ecology and other biological data.) 04:34, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
57. Richard Gill My home page at Leiden university, myself as a statistical topic [[Richard D. Gill | Richard Gill]. Interested in most everything. Richard Gill (talk) 12:53, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Featured articles

Actuary

Infinite monkey theorem

Monty Hall problem

Good articles

Ars Conjectandi

Maximum spacing estimation

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.

• Holtsmark distribution 7 Feb 2011
• V-statistic 5 Feb 2011
• Cramér's V 22 January 2011
• Sampling frame 2 Jan 2011 (replaces redirect)
• Trend stationary 2 Dec 2010 (replaces redirect)
• Separation (statistics) 20 Nov 2010
• Bussgang theorem 18 Nov 2010
• Cochran–Mantel–Haenszel statistics 16 Nov 2010
• Soliton distribution 10 Nov 2010 (replaces redirect)
• Prais-Winsten transformation 8 Nov 2010
• Stationary subspace analysis 2 Nov 2010
• The Tiger That Isn't 25 Oct 2010 (book)
• Iterated Conditional Modes 19 Oct 2010
• Komlós–Major–Tusnády approximation 14 Oct 2010
• List of university statistical consulting centers 10 Oct 2010
• Lorenz asymmetry coefficient 10 Oct 2010
• Probable error 7 Oct 2010
• Lincoln Index 5 Oct 2010

List here older articles, recently added to the Statistics project.

• Recommender system added 14 Feb 2011.
• Selective recruitment added 21 Feb 2011

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.

Please add new categories to this list as well as here.

• Category:Conjugate prior distributions 28 Sept 2010
• Category:Distributions with conjugate priors 28 Sept 2010
• Template {{dice}} attempts to reduce inappropriate changes of [[dice|die]] to [[dice|dice]] 13 May 2010
• Category:Summary statistics for contingency tables 25 Feb 2010
• Category:Ethics and statistics 7 Dec 2009
• Category:Environmental statistics 1 Dec 2009

WikiProject Mathematics has a well-established sub-project for assessing articles at WikiProject Mathematics/Wikipedia 1.0 that tabulates articles tagged with {{maths rating|field=probability and statistics}}. Full details are at WikiProject Mathematics/Wikipedia 1.0/Probability and statistics.

Other potentially useful fields instead of "probability and statistics" are: "mathematical physics" for topics in statistical mechanics; "mathematicians" for biographies.

A ranking of articles on statistical topics by recent page views is at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Statistics/Popular_pages.

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Category:Statistics templates includes a list of templates used by this project.

If you find an article that falls under the scope of this project, feel free to add this banner to the top of its talk page by typing {{WPStatistics}} (or {{WikiProject Statistics}}), which will produce:

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This article is within the scope of WikiProject Statistics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of statistics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.StatisticsWikipedia:WikiProject StatisticsTemplate:WikiProject StatisticsStatistics ??? This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale.

Articles that show this banner on the talk page are automatically included in the WikiProject Statistics articles category.

{{Stats banner}} is intended to identify pages, other than articles, as part of WikiProject Statistics. It should be used instead of {{WPStatistics}} on categories, templates and the like. This banner should not be used on article talk pages.

{{StatsTopicTOC}} provides navigational assistance on "List of..." articles related to statistics.

Statistics
Outline Statisticians Glossary Notation Journals Lists of topics Articles Category Mathematics portal

You can insert a link to the statistics portal (like the one shown at the right) by adding {{Portal|Statistics}} to the article - usually in the "See also" section (or equivalent).

• {{Statistics}}
• {{ProbDistributions}}
• {{Medical research studies}}
• {{Theory of probability distributions}}
• {{Statistics journals}}
• {{Least squares and regression analysis}}
• {{Experimental design}}

• {{Probability distribution}}
• {{Probability distribution two}}

Keep all parameters in {{Probability distribution}} and {{Probability distribution two}} to avoid raw code for them appearing in the infobox. Leave unknown parameters blank.

• {{Infobox scientist}}

Delete inapplicable parameters in {{Infobox scientist}}. Leave applicable but unknown parameters blank.

• {{Probability-stub}}
• {{Statistics-stub}}

Statistics User Boxes

Use this text in your userpage...	...to show this user box...	...and join these Wikipedians.
{{user statistician}}	This user is a statistician.	Wikipedian statisticians
{{User WikiProject Statistics}}	This user is a member of WikiProject Statistics.	WikiProject Statistics members

• Here is a list of statistics categories for articles.
• Please try to assign articles to an appropriate sub-category of statistics rather than the top level.
• Category:statistics is in need of reorganization. Click the "+" below to expand the category tree:

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Statistics

• 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.

• List of all subpages of this page

• Recent changes related to list of statistics topics is useful if you wish to keep an eye on recent changes.
• Recent changes to Talk pages tagged with {{WikiProject Statistics}} can be used to keep an eye on recent discussions
• Popular pages for frequently accessed statistics pages.

See also WikiProject Mathematics/Editor resources

The following are particularly helpful regarding mathematics, but note that valuable articles need not be dominated by mathematics.

• Manual of Style for mathematical content
• Mathematical conventions
• Notation in probability and statistics

See also Public domain resources

It is believed that articles from the following sites may be copied in whole or in part with or without modification provided a citation of the source is included:

• PlanetMath: See the PlanetMath Exchange subproject, in particular 60-XX Probability theory and stochastic processes and 62-XX Statistics. Cite page and add {{planetmath}} template.
• NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods. US government site and therefore public domain. Cite page and add {{NIST-PD}} template.

See also WikiProject Mathematics/Reference resources

The following sites are copyrighted but may be useful as references:

• A Dictionary of Statistics. Oxford University Press, 2008. Open access via Answers.com.
• StatSci.org Directory of teaching resources
• Statistics Online Computational Resource (SOCR) from UCLA
• statistics.com Statistical Glossary
• StatSoft Electronic Statistics Textbook
• HyperStat Online Statistics Textbook
• The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice by Gerard E. Dallal, Tufts University
• SAS/STAT documentation Provides quite a lot of background on statistical procedures
• Encyclopaedia of Mathematics (see {{Springer}})

• Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences (Wiley Interscience)
• Encyclopedia of Biostatistics (Wiley Interscience)

• WikiProject Mathematics
• WikiProject Probability (currently inactive)
• WP:WikiProject Science
• WP:WikiProject Philosophy
• Wikipedia:Statistics Department (statistics about Wikipedia, currently inactive)

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Statistics