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: statistical_method
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> 1 sense of the expression
statistical method
:
NOUN
cognition
statistical method
,
statistical procedure
a
method
of
analyzing
or
representing
statistical
data
English
>
statistical method
: 1 sense
> noun 1, cognition
Meaning
A
method
of
analyzing
or
representing
statistical
data
; a
procedure
for
calculating
a
statistic
.
Synonym
statistical procedure
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
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
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
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
Spanish
método estadístico
,
procedimiento estadístico
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