Statistics

• average

  A statistic describing the location of a distribution; "it set the norm for American ho...

• nonparametric statistic

  A statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of...

• deviation

  The difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or func...

• moment

  Of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed...

• parametric statistic

  Any statistic computed by procedures that assume the data were drawn from a...

• demographic

  A statistic characterizing human populations (or segments of human populations broken...

• time series

  A series of values of a variable at successive times.

• vital statistics

  Data relating to births and deaths and health and diseases and marriages.