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68–95–99.7 rule

In statistics, the 68–95–99.7 rule, also known as the three-sigma rule or empirical rule, states that nearly all values lie within three standard deviations of the mean in a normal distribution.

Accident

In the case of injuries in the home, a 2005 survey using data from the National Vital Statistics System of the United States National Center for Health Statistics found that falls, poisoning, and fire/burn injuries were the most common causes for death.

Alexander Chuprov

Alexander Ivanovich Chuprov (1841–1908), Russian professor of political economy and statistics at Moscow University

American Society of Military Comptrollers

Today, the organization promotes professional development in general financial management, accounting and finance, budgeting, resource management, auditing, statistics and cost analysis, management analysis, manpower management, program analysis, acquisition management, and comptroller related administrative support activities.

Anne Campbell

She was a secondary school maths teacher in Cambridgeshire, a lecturer in Statistics at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology (became Anglia Higher Education College in 1989) from 1970–83, and head of Statistics and Data Processing at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany from 1983-92.

BESK

The first calculations were done on April 1, 1954 and BESK handled weather data for Carl-Gustaf Rossby and the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, statistics for the telecommunications service provider Televerket, wing profiles for the attack aircraft Saab Lansen, and road profiles for the road authority Vägverket.

Bessel's correction

In statistics, Bessel's correction, named after Friedrich Bessel, is the use of n − 1 instead of n in the formula for the sample variance and sample standard deviation, where n is the number of observations in a sample: it corrects the bias in the estimation of the population variance, and some (but not all) of the bias in the estimation of the population standard deviation.

Big Bullets F.C.

Big Bullets (BB) is a Malawian football (soccer) club based in Blantyre and by unconfirmed statistics, Malawi's popular football club and has dominated the country's major soccer league, TNM Super League, since it was formed in 1967.

Categorical variable

The choice of coding system does not affect the F or Central Bureau of Statistics

Statistics Netherlands, formerly known as the Central Bureau of Statistics

D. Raghavarao

He earned his Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Mumbai in 1961 for his work in designs of experiments; his Ph.D. advisor was M. C. Chakrabarti.

Drew Cannon

Telep had just finished reading Moneyball and was intrigued with the idea of bringing advanced statistics to basketball.

Dutch Open Telescope

Then by using statistics and a lot of computing (a 35 dual-Xeon computer-cluster powers these despeckle algorithms) the image is improved.

Economy of Belgium

Indeed, Flemish and Walloon economies differ in many respects (consider for instance Eurostats and OECD statistics), and cities like Brussels, Antwerp, Liège, Bruges, Charleroi or Ghent also exhibit significant differences.

Ernest Lanigan

The best known of these were the RBI and the CS, which he researched and catalogued, and which were eventually adopted as official major league statistics.

Fisher's z-distribution

It was first described by Ronald Fisher in a paper delivered at the International Mathematical Congress of 1924 in Toronto, entitled "On a distribution yielding the error functions of several well-known statistics" (Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematics, Toronto, 2: 805-813 (1924).

Graeme Bond

In 1989 he joined 3AW as a football commentator and now mainly acts as an analyser of football statistics.

Graham Hilford Pollard

He is a lecturer in statistics at the Canberra College of Advance Education since 1982, and currently serves as Chairman of the editorial committee of the Australian Mathematics Trust publishing house.

H. Morse Stephens

After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, at the suggestion University of California President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, Morse joined the Committee of 50, and in consultation with Governor Pardee, moved to the Earthquake History and Statistics Committee.

HESA

Higher Education Statistics Agency, a statistics-collection agency in the United Kingdom

Hicks Building

The building houses the departments of Physics and Astronomy, the Chemistry and Physics Workshop (formally known as the Central Mechanical Workshops) and the School of Mathematics and Statistics, which comprises the departments of Probability and Statistics, Applied Mathematics and Pure Mathematics.

International Press Telecommunications Council

SportsML-G2 is a convenient way to share sports statistics in a concise, unambiguous way.

Jacob Lestschinsky

He was a founding member of YIVO (Institute for Jewish Research) in Vilna, (then in Poland) starting its Section for Economics and Statistics.

Jaroslav Vanek

He received his diploma in statistics, mathematics and economics at the Sorbonne (1952), and a postgraduate degree in economics at the University of Geneva (1954).

John Clauser

Also in 1974 he made the first observation of sub-Poissonian statistics for light (via a violation of the Cauchy–Schwarz inequality for classical electromagnetic fields), and thereby, for the first time, demonstrated an unambiguous particle-like character for photons.

Journal of Statistical Software

The Journal of Statistical Software was founded in 1996 by Jan de Leeuw of the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Kris Wang

Wang received her undergraduate degree in statistics and master's degree in business management from University of Phoenix, and her graduate studies in computer science at San Jose State University.

Ledyard Tucker

Ledyard R Tucker (19 September 1910 Glenwood Springs, Colorado – 16 August 2004 Savoy, Illinois) was an American mathematician who specialized in statistics and psychometrics.

Macomb Mathematics Science Technology Center

The day-to-day learning in IDS varies, including: QBasic programming Freshmen year, Statistics for half of Sophomore and Junior year, Java and SolidWorks Junior and Senior year, HTML and Flash at the end of senior year, as well as copious work time on the research project each student must complete and present with a partner each year.

Means

Mean (average), a term used in mathematics and statistics

Medical statistics

Hilda Mary Woods - the first author (with William Russell) of the first British textbook of medical statistics, published in 1931

Michigan Wolverines football series records

These statistics are current through the end of the 2013 season.

Nader Fergany

Furthermore he did research for the Arab Institute for Training and Research in Statistics in Baghdad, the Arab Planning Institute in Kuwait and St Antony's College in Oxford in the UK.

Neuroevolution of augmenting topologies

The first video game to implement cgNEAT is Galactic Arms Race, a space-shooter game in which unique particle system weapons are evolved based player usage statistics.

No More Good Days

According to Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the premiere has received a "generally favorable" score of 72, based on 26 reviews.

Ponthoile

After the ravages of the wars against the English and Burgundians, according to English statistics, there were only 48.

Robert Mackenzie Johnston

He was president of the economic and social science and statistics section at the meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science held at Melbourne in 1890, and with the coming of federation he was able to influence very much the special problems of finance that were raised.

Royal Statistical Society

It also publishes the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, which currently consists of three separate series of journals whose contents include papers presented at Ordinary Meetings of the Society, namely Series A (Statistics in Society), Series B (Statistical Methodology) and Series C (Applied Statistics), as well as a general audience magazine called Significance published in conjunction with the American Statistical Association.

Samuel S. Wilks

Wilks assembled an advisory board for the journal that included major figures in statistics and probability, among them Ronald Fisher, Jerzy Neyman, and Egon Pearson.

Siegel–Tukey test

In statistics, the Siegel–Tukey test, named after Sidney Siegel and John Tukey, is a non-parametric test which may be applied to data measured at least on an ordinal scale.

Slugging percentage

Allen Barra and George Ignatin were early adopters in combining the two modern-day statistics, multiplying them together to form what is now known as "SLOB" (Slugging × On-Base).

Sprott School of Business

To earn a Bachelor of Commerce degree students must demonstrate proficient knowledge in the following base level courses: Marketing, Human Resources, Information Systems, Statistics, Finance, Economics, Ethics, Strategic Management, Organizational Theory, Organizational Behaviour, and Financial and Managerial Accounting.

Square root biased sampling

Square root biased sampling is a sampling method proposed by William H. Press, a computer scientist and computational biologist, for use in airport screenings.

Stan Zin

Previously, from 1988 to 2009 he was the Richard M. Cyert and Morris H. DeGroot Professor of Economics and Statistics at the David A. Tepper School of Business (previously the Graduate School of Industrial Administration) at Carnegie Mellon University, and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Steffen Lauritzen

He continued as professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Aalborg University, Denmark, from 1981 to 2004.

Stuart Wright

Along with James "Jim" Leytham, Stanley "Stan" Moorhouse, Peter Norburn, Keith Fielding, Martin Offiah, and Sam Tomkins, having scored four tries, Stuart Wright jointly holds the record for the most tries scored in an England match, scoring four tries against Wales at Knowsley Road, St. Helens on 28 May 1978.

The Lady Tasting Tea

The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century (ISBN 0-8050-7134-2) is a book by David Salsburg about the history of modern statistics and the role it played in the development of science and industry.

United Kingdom Census 1851

Microdata from the 1851 population census are freely available through the North Atlantic Population Project.

Warren Ewens

Ewens received a B.A. (1958) and M.A. (1960) in Mathematical Statistics from the University of Melbourne, and a Ph.D. from the Australian National University (1962).

Wayne Laugesen

As the National Catholic Register's correspondent covering the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops when the Catholic sexual abuse scandal emerged, Laugesen is often cited for research that has put the problem in context by comparing abuse statistics of Catholic institutions with those of other religious and secular organizations.


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