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<p>A <b>descriptive statistic</b> (in the <a href="/wiki/Count_noun" title="Count
noun">count noun</a> sense) is a <a href="/wiki/Summary_statistic" class="mw-
redirect" title="Summary statistic">summary statistic</a> that quantitatively
describes or summarizes features from a collection of <a href="/wiki/Information"
title="Information">information</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a
href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> while <b>descriptive statistics</b> (in
the <a href="/wiki/Mass_noun" title="Mass noun">mass noun</a> sense) is the process
of using and analysing those statistics. Descriptive statistics is distinguished
from <a href="/wiki/Statistical_inference" title="Statistical
inference">inferential statistics</a> (or inductive statistics) by its aim to
summarize a <a href="/wiki/Sample_(statistics)" title="Sample
(statistics)">sample</a>, rather than use the data to learn about the <a
href="/wiki/Statistical_population" title="Statistical population">population</a>
that the sample of data is thought to represent. This generally means that
descriptive statistics, unlike inferential statistics, is not developed on the
basis of <a href="/wiki/Probability_theory" title="Probability theory">probability
theory</a>, and are frequently <a href="/wiki/Nonparametric_statistics"
title="Nonparametric statistics">non-parametric statistics</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2"
class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> Even when a data
analysis draws its main conclusions using inferential statistics, descriptive
statistics are generally also presented. For example, in papers reporting on human
subjects, typically a table is included giving the overall <a
href="/wiki/Sample_size" class="mw-redirect" title="Sample size">sample size</a>,
sample sizes in important subgroups (e.g., for each treatment or exposure group),
and <a href="/wiki/Demographic" class="mw-redirect"
title="Demographic">demographic</a> or clinical characteristics such as the <a
href="/wiki/Average" title="Average">average</a> age, the proportion of subjects of
each sex, the proportion of subjects with related <a href="/wiki/Comorbidity"
title="Comorbidity">co-morbidities</a>, etc.
</p><p>Some measures that are commonly used to describe a data set are measures of
<a href="/wiki/Central_tendency" title="Central tendency">central tendency</a> and
measures of variability or <a href="/wiki/Statistical_dispersion"
title="Statistical dispersion">dispersion</a>. Measures of central tendency include
the <a href="/wiki/Mean" title="Mean">mean</a>, <a href="/wiki/Median"
title="Median">median</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mode_(statistics)" title="Mode
(statistics)">mode</a>, while measures of variability include the <a
href="/wiki/Standard_deviation" title="Standard deviation">standard deviation</a>
(or <a href="/wiki/Variance" title="Variance">variance</a>), the minimum and
maximum values of the variables, <a href="/wiki/Kurtosis"
title="Kurtosis">kurtosis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Skewness"
title="Skewness">skewness</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Inv_3-0" class="reference"><a
href="#cite_note-Inv-3">[3]</a></sup>
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<p>Descriptive statistics provide simple summaries about the sample and about the
observations that have been made. Such summaries may be either <a
href="/wiki/Quantitative_research" title="Quantitative research">quantitative</a>,
i.e. <a href="/wiki/Summary_statistics" title="Summary statistics">summary
statistics</a>, or visual, i.e. simple-to-understand graphs. These summaries may
either form the basis of the initial description of the data as part of a more
extensive statistical analysis, or they may be sufficient in and of themselves for
a particular investigation.
</p><p>For example, the shooting <a href="/wiki/Percentage"
title="Percentage">percentage</a> in <a href="/wiki/Basketball"
title="Basketball">basketball</a> is a descriptive statistic that summarizes the
performance of a player or a team. This number is the number of shots made divided
by the number of shots taken. For example, a player who shoots 33% is making
approximately one shot in every three. The percentage summarizes or describes
multiple discrete events. Consider also the <a href="/wiki/Grade_point_average"
class="mw-redirect" title="Grade point average">grade point average</a>. This
single number describes the general performance of a student across the range of
their course experiences.<sup id="cite_ref-trochim_4-0" class="reference"><a
href="#cite_note-trochim-4">[4]</a></sup>
</p><p>The use of descriptive and summary statistics has an extensive history and,
indeed, the simple tabulation of populations and of economic data was the first way
the topic of <a href="/wiki/Statistics" title="Statistics">statistics</a> appeared.
More recently, a collection of summarisation techniques has been formulated under
the heading of <a href="/wiki/Exploratory_data_analysis" title="Exploratory data
analysis">exploratory data analysis</a>: an example of such a technique is the <a
href="/wiki/Box_plot" title="Box plot">box plot</a>.
</p><p>In the business world, descriptive statistics provides a useful summary of
many types of data. For example, investors and brokers may use a historical account
of return behaviour by performing empirical and analytical analyses on their
investments in order to make better investing decisions in the future.
</p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Univariate_analysis">Univariate
analysis</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-
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<p><a href="/wiki/Univariate_analysis" title="Univariate analysis">Univariate
analysis</a> involves describing the <a href="/wiki/Frequency_distribution"
title="Frequency distribution">distribution</a> of a single variable, including its
central tendency (including the <a href="/wiki/Mean" title="Mean">mean</a>, <a
href="/wiki/Median" title="Median">median</a>, and <a
href="/wiki/Mode_(statistics)" title="Mode (statistics)">mode</a>) and dispersion
(including the <a href="/wiki/Range_(statistics)" title="Range
(statistics)">range</a> and <a href="/wiki/Quartiles" class="mw-redirect"
title="Quartiles">quartiles</a> of the data-set, and measures of spread such as the
<a href="/wiki/Variance" title="Variance">variance</a> and <a
href="/wiki/Standard_deviation" title="Standard deviation">standard deviation</a>).
The shape of the distribution may also be described via indices such as <a
href="/wiki/Skewness" title="Skewness">skewness</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kurtosis"
title="Kurtosis">kurtosis</a>. Characteristics of a variable's distribution may
also be depicted in graphical or tabular format, including <a
href="/wiki/Histograms" class="mw-redirect" title="Histograms">histograms</a> and
<a href="/wiki/Stem-and-leaf_display" title="Stem-and-leaf display">stem-and-leaf
display</a>.
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and multivariate analysis</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-
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<p>When a sample consists of more than one variable, descriptive statistics may be
used to describe the relationship between pairs of variables. In this case,
descriptive statistics include:
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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Contingency_table" title="Contingency table">Cross-
tabulations</a> and <a href="/wiki/Contingency_tables" class="mw-redirect"
title="Contingency tables">contingency tables</a></li>
<li>Graphical representation via <a href="/wiki/Scatterplot" class="mw-redirect"
title="Scatterplot">scatterplots</a></li>
<li>Quantitative measures of <a href="/wiki/Correlation_and_dependence"
title="Correlation and dependence">dependence</a></li>
<li>Descriptions of <a href="/wiki/Conditional_distribution" class="mw-redirect"
title="Conditional distribution">conditional distributions</a></li></ul>
<p>The main reason for differentiating univariate and bivariate analysis is that
bivariate analysis is not only simple descriptive analysis, but also it describes
the relationship between two different variables.<sup id="cite_ref-5"
class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> Quantitative
measures of dependence include correlation (such as <a href="/wiki/Pearson%27s_r"
class="mw-redirect" title="Pearson's r">Pearson's r</a> when both variables are
continuous, or <a href="/wiki/Spearman%27s_rho" class="mw-redirect"
title="Spearman's rho">Spearman's rho</a> if one or both are not) and <a
href="/wiki/Covariance" title="Covariance">covariance</a> (which reflects the scale
variables are measured on). The slope, in regression analysis, also reflects the
relationship between variables. The unstandardised slope indicates the unit change
in the criterion variable for a one unit change in the <a href="/wiki/Prediction"
title="Prediction">predictor</a>. The standardised slope indicates this change in
standardised (<a href="/wiki/Z-score" class="mw-redirect" title="Z-score">z-
score</a>) units. Highly skewed data are often transformed by taking logarithms.
Use of logarithms makes graphs more symmetrical and look more similar to the <a
href="/wiki/Normal_distribution" title="Normal distribution">normal
distribution</a>, making them easier to interpret intuitively.<sup id="cite_ref-6"
class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup><sup
class="reference" style="white-space:nowrap;">:<span>47</span></sup>
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<li><a href="/wiki/Statistical_power" class="mw-redirect" title="Statistical
power">Statistical power</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Optimal_design" title="Optimal design">Optimal design</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Sample_size_determination" title="Sample size
determination">Sample size determination</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Replication_(statistics)" title="Replication
(statistics)">Replication</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Missing_data" title="Missing data">Missing data</a></li></ul>
href="/wiki/Survey_methodology" title="Survey methodology">Survey
methodology</a></th><td class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="text-
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sampling_(statistics)" title="Sampling
(statistics)">Sampling</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stratified_sampling" title="Stratified
sampling">stratified</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Cluster_sampling" title="Cluster
sampling">cluster</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Standard_error" title="Standard error">Standard error</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Opinion_poll" title="Opinion poll">Opinion poll</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Questionnaire" title="Questionnaire">Questionnaire</a></li></ul>
href="/wiki/Experiment" title="Experiment">Controlled experiments</a></th><td
left-style:solid;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Scientific_control" title="Scientific control">Scientific
control</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Randomized_experiment" title="Randomized experiment">Randomized
experiment</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Randomized_controlled_trial" title="Randomized controlled
trial">Randomized controlled trial</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Random_assignment" title="Random assignment">Random
assignment</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Blocking_(statistics)" title="Blocking
(statistics)">Blocking</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Interaction_(statistics)" title="Interaction
(statistics)">Interaction</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Factorial_experiment" title="Factorial experiment">Factorial
experiment</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group"
style="width:12.5em">Adaptive Designs</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-even"
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adaptive_clinical_trial" title="Adaptive clinical
trial">Adaptive clinical trial</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Up-and-Down_Designs" title="Up-and-Down Designs">Up-and-Down
Designs</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Stochastic_approximation" title="Stochastic
approximation">Stochastic approximation</a></li></ul>
href="/wiki/Observational_study" title="Observational study">Observational
Studies</a></th><td class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="text-align:left;border-
0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cross-sectional_study" title="Cross-sectional study">Cross-
sectional study</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Cohort_study" title="Cohort study">Cohort study</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Natural_experiment" title="Natural experiment">Natural
experiment</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Quasi-experiment" title="Quasi-experiment">Quasi-
experiment</a></li></ul>
id="Statistical_inference" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a
href="/wiki/Statistical_inference" title="Statistical inference">Statistical
inference</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd"
href="/wiki/Statistical_theory" title="Statistical theory">Statistical
theory</a></th><td class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="text-align:left;border-
0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Population_(statistics)" class="mw-redirect"
title="Population (statistics)">Population</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Statistic" title="Statistic">Statistic</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Probability_distribution" title="Probability
distribution">Probability distribution</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Sampling_distribution" title="Sampling distribution">Sampling
distribution</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Order_statistic" title="Order statistic">Order
statistic</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Empirical_distribution_function" title="Empirical distribution
function">Empirical distribution</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Density_estimation" title="Density estimation">Density
estimation</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Statistical_model" title="Statistical model">Statistical
model</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Model_specification" class="mw-redirect" title="Model
specification">Model specification</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Lp_space" title="Lp space">L<sup><i>p</i></sup>
space</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Statistical_parameter" title="Statistical
parameter">Parameter</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Location_parameter" title="Location
parameter">location</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Scale_parameter" title="Scale parameter">scale</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Shape_parameter" title="Shape
parameter">shape</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Parametric_statistics" title="Parametric statistics">Parametric
family</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Likelihood_function" title="Likelihood
function">Likelihood</a> <a href="/wiki/Monotone_likelihood_ratio"
title="Monotone likelihood ratio"><span style="font-
size:85%;">(monotone)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Location%E2%80%93scale_family" title="Location–scale
family">Location–scale family</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Exponential_family" title="Exponential family">Exponential
family</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Completeness_(statistics)" title="Completeness
(statistics)">Completeness</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Sufficient_statistic" title="Sufficient
statistic">Sufficiency</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Plug-in_principle" class="mw-redirect" title="Plug-in
principle">Statistical functional</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bootstrapping_(statistics)" title="Bootstrapping
(statistics)">Bootstrap</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/U-statistic" title="U-statistic">U</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/V-statistic" title="V-statistic">V</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Optimal_decision" title="Optimal decision">Optimal decision</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Loss_function" title="Loss function">loss
function</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Efficiency_(statistics)" title="Efficiency
(statistics)">Efficiency</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Statistical_distance" title="Statistical distance">Statistical
distance</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Divergence_(statistics)" title="Divergence
(statistics)">divergence</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Asymptotic_theory_(statistics)" title="Asymptotic theory
(statistics)">Asymptotics</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Robust_statistics" title="Robust
statistics">Robustness</a></li></ul>
href="/wiki/Frequentist_inference" title="Frequentist inference">Frequentist
inference</a></th><td class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="text-align:left;border-
0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-
spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-
weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Point_estimation" title="Point estimation">Point
estimation</a></th><td class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="text-
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Estimating_equations" title="Estimating
equations">Estimating equations</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maximum_likelihood" class="mw-redirect" title="Maximum
likelihood">Maximum likelihood</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Method_of_moments_(statistics)" title="Method of moments
(statistics)">Method of moments</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/M-estimator" title="M-estimator">M-estimator</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Minimum_distance_estimation" class="mw-redirect" title="Minimum
distance estimation">Minimum distance</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Bias_of_an_estimator" title="Bias of an estimator">Unbiased
estimators</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Minimum-variance_unbiased_estimator" title="Minimum-variance
unbiased estimator">Mean-unbiased minimum-variance</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rao%E2%80%93Blackwell_theorem" title="Rao–Blackwell
theorem">Rao–Blackwellization</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Lehmann%E2%80%93Scheff%C3%A9_theorem" title="Lehmann–Scheffé
theorem">Lehmann–Scheffé theorem</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Median-unbiased_estimator" class="mw-redirect" title="Median-
unbiased estimator">Median unbiased</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Plug-in_principle" class="mw-redirect" title="Plug-in
principle">Plug-in</a></li></ul>
weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Interval_estimation" title="Interval
estimation">Interval estimation</a></th><td class="navbox-list navbox-odd"
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Confidence_interval" title="Confidence interval">Confidence
interval</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Pivotal_quantity" title="Pivotal quantity">Pivot</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Likelihood_interval" class="mw-redirect" title="Likelihood
interval">Likelihood interval</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Prediction_interval" title="Prediction interval">Prediction
interval</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Tolerance_interval" title="Tolerance interval">Tolerance
interval</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Resampling_(statistics)" title="Resampling
(statistics)">Resampling</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bootstrapping_(statistics)" title="Bootstrapping
(statistics)">Bootstrap</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Jackknife_resampling" title="Jackknife
resampling">Jackknife</a></li></ul></li></ul>
weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Statistical_hypothesis_testing" title="Statistical
hypothesis testing">Testing hypotheses</a></th><td class="navbox-list navbox-even"
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/One-_and_two-tailed_tests" title="One- and two-tailed
tests">1- & 2-tails</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Power_(statistics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Power
(statistics)">Power</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Uniformly_most_powerful_test" title="Uniformly most powerful
test">Uniformly most powerful test</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Permutation_test" class="mw-redirect" title="Permutation
test">Permutation test</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Randomization_test" class="mw-redirect" title="Randomization
test">Randomization test</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Multiple_comparisons" class="mw-redirect" title="Multiple
comparisons">Multiple comparisons</a></li></ul>
weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Parametric_statistics" title="Parametric
statistics">Parametric tests</a></th><td class="navbox-list navbox-odd"
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Likelihood-ratio_test" title="Likelihood-ratio
test">Likelihood-ratio</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Score_test" title="Score test">Score/Lagrange
multiplier</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Wald_test" title="Wald test">Wald</a></li></ul>
class="navbox-group" style="width:12.5em">Specific tests</th><td class="navbox-list
navbox-odd" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-
style:solid;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em"></div><table
class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td
colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0px"><div
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Z-test" title="Z-test"><i>Z</i>-test <span style="font-
size:90%;">(normal)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Student%27s_t-test" title="Student's t-test">Student's
<i>t</i>-test</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/F-test" title="F-test"><i>F</i>-test</a></li></ul>
weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Goodness_of_fit" title="Goodness of fit">Goodness of
fit</a></th><td class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="text-align:left;border-left-
width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em
0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chi-squared_test" title="Chi-squared test">Chi-
squared</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/G-test" title="G-test"><i>G</i>-test</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Kolmogorov%E2%80%93Smirnov_test" title="Kolmogorov–Smirnov
test">Kolmogorov–Smirnov</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Anderson%E2%80%93Darling_test" title="Anderson–Darling
test">Anderson–Darling</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Lilliefors_test" title="Lilliefors test">Lilliefors</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Jarque%E2%80%93Bera_test" title="Jarque–Bera test">Jarque–
Bera</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Shapiro%E2%80%93Wilk_test" title="Shapiro–Wilk test">Normality
<span style="font-size:90%;">(Shapiro–Wilk)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Likelihood-ratio_test" title="Likelihood-ratio test">Likelihood-
ratio test</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Model_selection" title="Model selection">Model selection</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cross-validation_(statistics)" title="Cross-validation
(statistics)">Cross validation</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Akaike_information_criterion" title="Akaike information
criterion">AIC</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Bayesian_information_criterion" title="Bayesian information
criterion">BIC</a></li></ul></li></ul>
weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Rank_statistics" class="mw-redirect" title="Rank
statistics">Rank statistics</a></th><td class="navbox-list navbox-even"
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sign_test" title="Sign test">Sign</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sample_median" class="mw-redirect" title="Sample
median">Sample median</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Wilcoxon_signed-rank_test" title="Wilcoxon signed-rank
test">Signed rank <span style="font-size:90%;">(Wilcoxon)</span></a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hodges%E2%80%93Lehmann_estimator" title="Hodges–Lehmann
estimator">Hodges–Lehmann estimator</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Mann%E2%80%93Whitney_U_test" title="Mann–Whitney U test">Rank
sum <span style="font-size:90%;">(Mann–Whitney)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Nonparametric_statistics" title="Nonparametric
statistics">Nonparametric</a> <a href="/wiki/Analysis_of_variance" title="Analysis
of variance">anova</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kruskal%E2%80%93Wallis_one-way_analysis_of_variance"
title="Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance">1-way <span style="font-
size:90%;">(Kruskal–Wallis)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Friedman_test" title="Friedman test">2-way <span style="font-
size:90%;">(Friedman)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Jonckheere%27s_trend_test" title="Jonckheere's trend
test">Ordered alternative <span style="font-size:90%;">(Jonckheere–
Terpstra)</span></a></li></ul></li></ul>
class="navbox-group" style="width:12.5em"><a href="/wiki/Bayesian_inference"
title="Bayesian inference">Bayesian inference</a></th><td class="navbox-list
navbox-odd" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bayesian_probability" title="Bayesian probability">Bayesian
probability</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Prior_probability" title="Prior probability">prior</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Posterior_probability" title="Posterior
probability">posterior</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Credible_interval" title="Credible interval">Credible
interval</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Bayes_factor" title="Bayes factor">Bayes factor</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Bayes_estimator" title="Bayes estimator">Bayesian estimator</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maximum_a_posteriori_estimation" title="Maximum a posteriori
estimation">Maximum posterior estimator</a></li></ul></li></ul>
id="CorrelationRegression_analysis" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><div
class="hlist hlist-separated"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Correlation_and_dependence"
title="Correlation and dependence">Correlation</a></li><li><a
href="/wiki/Regression_analysis" title="Regression analysis">Regression
analysis</a></li></ul></div></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list
navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em
0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-
spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:12.5em"><a
href="/wiki/Correlation_and_dependence" title="Correlation and
dependence">Correlation</a></th><td class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="text-
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pearson_product-moment_correlation_coefficient" class="mw-
redirect" title="Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient">Pearson product-
moment</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Partial_correlation" title="Partial correlation">Partial
<li><a href="/wiki/Confounding" title="Confounding">Confounding variable</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Coefficient_of_determination" title="Coefficient of
determination">Coefficient of determination</a></li></ul>
href="/wiki/Regression_analysis" title="Regression analysis">Regression
analysis</a></th><td class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="text-align:left;border-
0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Errors_and_residuals_in_statistics" class="mw-redirect"
title="Errors and residuals in statistics">Errors and residuals</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Regression_validation" title="Regression validation">Regression
validation</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Mixed_model" title="Mixed model">Mixed effects models</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Simultaneous_equations_model" title="Simultaneous equations
model">Simultaneous equations models</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Multivariate_adaptive_regression_splines" class="mw-redirect"
title="Multivariate adaptive regression splines">Multivariate adaptive regression
splines (MARS)</a></li></ul>
href="/wiki/Linear_regression" title="Linear regression">Linear
regression</a></th><td class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="text-
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Simple_linear_regression" title="Simple linear
regression">Simple linear regression</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Ordinary_least_squares" title="Ordinary least squares">Ordinary
least squares</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/General_linear_model" title="General linear model">General
linear model</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Bayesian_linear_regression" title="Bayesian linear
regression">Bayesian regression</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:12.5em">Non-
standard predictors</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="text-
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nonlinear_regression" title="Nonlinear regression">Nonlinear
regression</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Nonparametric_regression" title="Nonparametric
regression">Nonparametric</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Semiparametric_regression" title="Semiparametric
regression">Semiparametric</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Isotonic_regression" title="Isotonic
regression">Isotonic</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Robust_regression" title="Robust regression">Robust</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Heteroscedasticity"
title="Heteroscedasticity">Heteroscedasticity</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Homoscedasticity"
title="Homoscedasticity">Homoscedasticity</a></li></ul>
href="/wiki/Generalized_linear_model" title="Generalized linear model">Generalized
linear model</a></th><td class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="text-
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Exponential_family" title="Exponential family">Exponential
families</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Logistic_regression" title="Logistic regression">Logistic <span
style="font-size:90%;">(Bernoulli)</span></a> / <a
href="/wiki/Binomial_regression" title="Binomial
regression">Binomial</a> / <a href="/wiki/Poisson_regression"
title="Poisson regression">Poisson regressions</a></li></ul>
href="/wiki/Partition_of_sums_of_squares" title="Partition of sums of
squares">Partition of variance</a></th><td class="navbox-list navbox-even"
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Analysis_of_variance" title="Analysis of variance">Analysis
of variance (ANOVA, anova)</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Analysis_of_covariance" title="Analysis of covariance">Analysis
of covariance</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Multivariate_analysis_of_variance" title="Multivariate analysis
of variance">Multivariate ANOVA</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Degrees_of_freedom_(statistics)" title="Degrees of freedom
(statistics)">Degrees of freedom</a></li></ul>
id="Categorical_/_Multivariate_/_Time-series_/_Survival_analysis" style="font-
size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Categorical_variable" title="Categorical
variable">Categorical</a> / <a href="/wiki/Multivariate_statistics"
title="Multivariate statistics">Multivariate</a> / <a
href="/wiki/Time_series" title="Time series">Time-series</a> / <a
href="/wiki/Survival_analysis" title="Survival analysis">Survival
analysis</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd"
href="/wiki/Categorical_variable" title="Categorical
variable">Categorical</a></th><td class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="text-
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cohen%27s_kappa" title="Cohen's kappa">Cohen's
kappa</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Contingency_table" title="Contingency table">Contingency
table</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Graphical_model" title="Graphical model">Graphical
model</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Poisson_regression" title="Poisson regression">Log-linear
model</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/McNemar%27s_test" title="McNemar's test">McNemar's
test</a></li></ul>
href="/wiki/Multivariate_statistics" title="Multivariate
statistics">Multivariate</a></th><td class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="text-
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/General_linear_model" title="General linear
model">Regression</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Multivariate_analysis_of_variance" title="Multivariate analysis
of variance">Manova</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Principal_component_analysis" title="Principal component
analysis">Principal components</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Canonical_correlation" title="Canonical correlation">Canonical
<li><a href="/wiki/Linear_discriminant_analysis" title="Linear discriminant
analysis">Discriminant analysis</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Cluster_analysis" title="Cluster analysis">Cluster
analysis</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Statistical_classification" title="Statistical
classification">Classification</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Structural_equation_modeling" title="Structural equation
modeling">Structural equation model</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Factor_analysis" title="Factor analysis">Factor
analysis</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Multivariate_distribution" class="mw-redirect"
title="Multivariate distribution">Multivariate distributions</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Elliptical_distribution" title="Elliptical
distribution">Elliptical distributions</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Multivariate_normal_distribution" title="Multivariate normal
distribution">Normal</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>
href="/wiki/Time_series" title="Time series">Time-series</a></th><td class="navbox-
list navbox-odd" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-
scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-
weight:normal;">General</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="text-
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Decomposition_of_time_series" title="Decomposition of time
series">Decomposition</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Trend_estimation" class="mw-redirect" title="Trend
estimation">Trend</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Stationary_process" title="Stationary
process">Stationarity</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Seasonal_adjustment" title="Seasonal adjustment">Seasonal
adjustment</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Exponential_smoothing" title="Exponential smoothing">Exponential
smoothing</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Cointegration" title="Cointegration">Cointegration</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Structural_break" title="Structural break">Structural
break</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Granger_causality" title="Granger causality">Granger
causality</a></li></ul>
weight:normal;">Specific tests</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="text-
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dickey%E2%80%93Fuller_test" title="Dickey–Fuller
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