Index

  • absenteeism
  • accuracy (or correctness), see also precision vs. accuracy
  • aircraft survivability
  • Aldrich, J.
  • American Statistical Association
  • analogy
  • analysis of variance
  • Anderson, E.
  • aphorism
  • arithmetic mean see mean, arithmetic
  • artefact
  • astonishing
  • Australian Bureau of Statistics
  • Australian Prime Ministers
  • average, see also mean; median; mode
  • Bayes’ formula (or theorem)
  • Bayesian (or subjectivist) inference
  • Bayes, T.
  • beguiling
  • Benford’s Law
  • Bernoulli, D.
  • Bernoulli, J.
  • Best, J.
  • bias
  • biased estimation see estimation, biased
  • Bible
  • Bienaymé, I.J.
  • big data
  • binomial distribution see distribution, binomial
  • birthday problem
  • Blackjack
  • Blastland, M.
  • Bletchley Park
  • blocking
  • blood cell count
  • Bonferroni adjustment
  • Booth, C.
  • bootstrap
  • Box, G.E.
  • Bristol‐Roach, B.M.
  • British Prime Ministers
  • Browne, T.
  • Buffon, Comte de
  • Byatt, A.S.
  • carbon dioxide
  • Cardano, G.
  • Carroll, Lewis
  • Casanova, G.
  • Cauchy distribution see distribution, Cauchy
  • CensusAtSchool
  • Central Limit Theorem
    • history
  • central tendency
  • Chance website
  • Chebyshev’s inequality
  • Chernoff faces
  • chi‐squared distribution see distribution, chi‐squared
  • chi‐squared test see test, chi‐squared
  • cholera
  • Classical (or frequentist) inference
  • coefficient of determination
  • coin tossing see also fair coin
  • companion website
  • compound interest
  • confidence interval see also estimation, interval
  • confounding
  • container train
  • convict
  • correctness see accuracy
  • correlation
  • cost‐benefit analysis
  • counterintuitive see also intuition
  • Cox and Box
  • Cox, D.
  • Cumming, ...

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