Meaning | A method of analyzing or representing statistical data; a procedure for calculating a statistic. |
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Synonym | statistical procedure |
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Category | statistics | A branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters |
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Part of | statistics | A branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters |
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Narrower | least squares, method of least squares | A method of fitting a curve to data points so as to minimize the sum of the squares of the distances of the points from the curve |
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multivariate analysis | A generic term for any statistical technique used to analyze data from more than one variable |
regression, simple regression, regression toward the mean, statistical regression | The relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x) |
Broader | method | A way of doing something, especially a systematic way |
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Spanish | método estadístico, procedimiento estadístico |
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