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This glossary of statistics and probability is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in the
mathematical Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...
sciences of statistics and
probability Probability is the branch of mathematics concerning numerical descriptions of how likely an event is to occur, or how likely it is that a proposition is true. The probability of an event is a number between 0 and 1, where, roughly speakin ...
, their sub-disciplines, and related fields. For additional related terms, see Glossary of mathematics and Glossary of experimental design.


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Notation in probability and statistics Probability theory and statistics have some commonly used conventions, in addition to standard mathematical notation and mathematical symbols. Probability theory * Random variables are usually written in upper case roman letters: ''X'', ''Y'', ...
* Probability axioms * Glossary of experimental design * List of statistical topics *
List of probability topics This is a list of probability topics, by Wikipedia page. It overlaps with the (alphabetical) list of statistical topics. There are also the outline of probability and catalog of articles in probability theory. For distributions, see List of pro ...
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Glossary of areas of mathematics Mathematics is a broad subject that is commonly divided in many areas that may be defined by their objects of study, by the used methods, or by both. For example, analytic number theory is a subarea of number theory devoted to the use of methods ...
* Glossary of calculus


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Probability and Statistics on the Earliest Uses Pages (Univ. of Southampton)
{{Glossaries of science and engineering Glossary Statistics-related lists Probability and statistics Probability and statistics Wikipedia glossaries using description lists