Race (classification of human beings) — The term race or racial group usually refers to the concept of categorizing humans into populations or groups on the basis of various sets of characteristics. [http://www.physanth.org/positions/race.html AAPA Statement on Biological Aspects of… … Wikipedia
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Signal-to-noise statistic — In mathematics the signal to noise statistic distance between two vectors a and b with mean values mu a and mu b and standard deviation sigma a and sigma b respectively is::D {sn} = {(mu a mu b) over (sigma a + sigma b)}This distance is… … Wikipedia
List of statistics topics — Please add any Wikipedia articles related to statistics that are not already on this list.The Related changes link in the margin of this page (below search) leads to a list of the most recent changes to the articles listed below. To see the most… … Wikipedia
Receiver operating characteristic — In signal detection theory, a receiver operating characteristic (ROC), or simply ROC curve, is a graphical plot of the sensitivity vs. (1 specificity) for a binary classifier system as its discrimination threshold is varied. The ROC can also be… … Wikipedia
Predictive analytics — encompasses a variety of techniques from statistics and data mining that analyze current and historical data to make predictions about future events. Such predictions rarely take the form of absolute statements, and are more likely to be… … Wikipedia
On-base plus slugging — (OPS) is a sabermetric baseball statistic calculated as the sum of a player s on base percentage and slugging percentage.[1] The ability of a player to both get on base and to hit for power, two important hitting skills, are represented. An OPS… … Wikipedia
Cohen's kappa — coefficient is a statistical measure of inter rater agreement or inter annotator agreement[1] for qualitative (categorical) items. It is generally thought to be a more robust measure than simple percent agreement calculation since κ takes into… … Wikipedia
Crime statistics — attempt to provide statistical measures of the crime in societies. Given that crime is usually secretive by nature, measurements of it are likely to be inaccurate. Several methods for measuring crime exist, including household surveys, hospital… … Wikipedia
Feature selection — Feature selection, also known as variable selection, feature reduction, attribute selection or variable subset selection, is the technique, commonly used in machine learning, of selecting a subset of relevant features for building robust learning … Wikipedia
Statistical inference — In statistics, statistical inference is the process of drawing conclusions from data that are subject to random variation, for example, observational errors or sampling variation.[1] More substantially, the terms statistical inference,… … Wikipedia