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• Statistics
  ...as a branch of mathematics. Some tasks a statistician may involve are less mathematical; for example, ensuring that data collection is undertaken in a way that pro ...ough [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_model statistical models]. Statistics is applicable to a wide variety of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_
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• Actuarial
  '''Actuarial''' [[science]] is the [[discipline]] that applies [[mathematical]] and [[statistical]] [[method]]s to assess risk in the insurance and [[fin ...nd [[economics]]. Historically, actuarial science used [[deterministic]] [[mathematical model|models]] in the construction of tables and premiums. The science has
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• Variance
  *5: [[Statistics]] a [[quantity]] equal to the square of the standard deviation. In [[probability]] theory and [[statistics]], '''variance''' measures how far a set of [[numbers]] is spread out. A va
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• Mathematics
  ...age:Visualization_of_algorithm.jpg|right|frame|<center>"Visualization of a mathematical [[algorithm]]."</center>]] ...,’ from Old French ''mathematique'', from [[Latin]] ''(ars) mathematica'' ‘mathematical (art),’ from [[Greek]] ''mathēmatikē'' (''tekhnē''), from the base of
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• Correlate
  In [[statistics]], dependence refers to any statistical [[relationship]] between [[two]] [h ...fers to any situation in which [[random]] [[variables]] do not satisfy a [[mathematical]] condition of [[probabilistic]] independence. In loose usage, correlation
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• Formal Sciences
  ...heoretical branches of [[computer science]], [[information theory]], and [[statistics]]. ...College London]] and [[Tokyo University]], their Department of mathematics/statistics run under the faculty of natural science/science.
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• Political Science
  ...[[research]], [[statistics|statistical]] [[analysis]], case studies, and [[Mathematical model|model]] building. Herbert Baxter Adams is credited with coining the p
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• Information Theory
  ...for [[DSL]] lines). The field is at the crossroads of [[mathematics]], [[statistics]], [[computer science]], [[physics]], [[neurobiology]], and [[electrical en ...1948 by [[Claude Elwood Shannon|Claude Shannon]] in his seminal work, "[[A Mathematical Theory of Communication]]." The central paradigm of classical information
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• Adjustment
  ...and geodesy, adjustment means the optimal [[parameter]] estimation of a [[mathematical model]] so as to best fit a [[data]] set. The most important [[method]] is * In [[statistics]], it is the [[compensation]] for confounding variables.
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• Secondary Corpus
  ...ematics]], & theoretical [[computer science]], [[information theory]], & [[statistics]]. ==== [[Statistics]][https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Statistics] ====
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• Climate
  '''Climate''' [[encompasses]] the [[statistics]] of [[temperature]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humidity humidity], [h ...coral. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_model Climate models] are [[mathematical model]]s of [[past]], [[present]] and [[future]] climates.[https://en.wikip
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• Probability
  ...theory, that is used extensively in such areas of study as mathematics, [[statistics]], [[finance]], gambling, science, and philosophy to draw conclusions about ...erest in quantifying the [[ideas]] of probability for millennia, but exact mathematical descriptions of use in those problems only arose much later.
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• Analysis
  * [[Mathematics|Mathematical]] analysis, the generic name given to any branch of mathematics that depend ==Statistics==
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• Hypothesis
  ...rly usage, scholars often referred to a clever [[idea]] or to a convenient mathematical approach that simplified cumbersome calculations as a ''hypothesis''; when ...ome a theory itself. Normally, scientific hypotheses have the form of a [[mathematical model]]. Sometimes, but not always, one can also formulate them as existen
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• Inference
  * [[Statistics|Statisticians]] have developed formal rules for inference from quantitative ...of the most famous statements of those rules in his [[Organon]]. Modern [[mathematical logic]], beginning in the 19th century, has built numerous [[formal system]
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• Genius
  ...ue. Quetelet [[discovered]] that the bell-shaped curve applied to social [[statistics]] gathered by the French government in the course of its normal processes o ...iscover]] a general measure of the average, Galton looked at educational [[statistics]] and found bell-curves in test results of all sorts; initially in [[mathem
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• Chance
  The term is often used in [[statistics]] to signify well-defined statistical properties, such as a lack of bias or ...Though Gerolamo Cardano and Galileo wrote about games of chance, the first mathematical treatments were given by [[Blaise Pascal]], Pierre de Fermat and Christiaan
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• Experiment
  ...iable truly reflects the phenomenon under study (a question of [[validity (statistics)|validity]]) and that the variable can be measured accurately (i.e., that v ...uses more on the problems of external validity, often through the use of [[statistics|statistical methods]]. Occasionally events occur naturally from which scien
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• Information
  ...nformation]], a concept of [[R.A. Fisher]]. This is used in application of statistics to [[estimation theory]] and to science in general. Fisher information is ...he publication in 1948 of an influential paper by [[Claude Shannon]], "[[A Mathematical Theory of Communication]]." This paper provides the foundations of [[infor
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• Natural Sciences
  ...manities]], [[theology]] and the [[art]]s on the other. [[Mathematics]], [[statistics]] and [[computer science]] are not considered natural sciences, but provide Aside from the logical and mathematical sciences, there are three great branches of ''natural science'' which stand
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