This glossary of statistics and probability is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in the

mathematical Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

sciences of

statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ...

and

probability Probability is a branch of mathematics and statistics concerning events and numerical descriptions of how likely they are to occur. The probability of an event is a number between 0 and 1; the larger the probability, the more likely an e ...

, their sub-disciplines, and related fields. For additional related terms, see Glossary of mathematics and Glossary of experimental design.

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Probability and Statistics on the Earliest Uses Pages (Univ. of Southampton)
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