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[edit] Pages needing attention/Statistics

Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Statistics currently redirects to Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Mathematics#Statistics which is woefully out of date. I suggest (a) deleting Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Mathematics#Statistics, (b) redirecting Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Statistics to Wikipedia:WikiProject Statistics/Cleanup listing, and (c) using Wikipedia:WikiProject Statistics/to do for pages that need special attention.—G716 <^T·_C> 13:25, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

It does look better, but unfortunately this other list is also out-of-date: June 2008 according to the bot's description. Melcombe (talk) 16:51, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Apparently the database snapshots that the bot uses are no longer taken on a regular basis; I don't know if this is permanent or temporary. I've added {{see also|Wikipedia:WikiProject Statistics/Cleanup listing}} to Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Mathematics#Statistics —G716 <^T·_C> 03:34, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Statistics/Cleanup listing has been updated. —G716 <^T·_C> 11:00, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Statistical lists and tables

It seems to me that Category:Statistical lists and tables is morphing into a statistics version of Category:Mathematics-related lists, with only a couple of articles on "tables." I suggest moving Category:Statistical lists and tables to "Category:Statistics-related lists", and recategorizing the two "tables" articles. Regards—G716 <^T·_C> 18:04, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

There was previously an article "t-table" that contained numerical values for the Student-t distribution, but this was deleted possibly because some similar content is/was in the Student t article. The present two articles on tables do not contain extensive numerical values, but are more descriptive. Two thoughts are: (i) there may be scope for an article on statistical tables, briefly listing the tables in student-level tables and going on to describe what is contained in more extensive sets of tables; (ii) it might be useful to see if there are any more "actuarial" tables that can usefully be covered in a combined category. Melcombe (talk) 09:37, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

I cannot find any other articles on statistical tables, so I am going to remove the two articles in this category and move the cat.—G716 <^T·_C> 15:48, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Please comment on the CfD here. Regards—G716 <^T·_C> 16:02, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Statistical practice on AfD

Statistical practice is on AfD—G716 <^T·_C> 03:00, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Khmaladze transformation

The article titled Khmaladze transformation is a mess, but maybe it can be reorganized into a reasonable article. Michael Hardy (talk) 15:15, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Uniformly more powerful?

Should the term uniformly more powerful (as used in Bonferroni correction) point to uniformly most powerful test, or is there a better redirect? -- The Anome (talk) 14:22, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

I've directed "powerful" to statistical power and added a parenthetical explanation. Michael Hardy (talk) 03:41, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wagaman Reference Lines

Wagaman Reference Lines is on afd—G716 <^T·_C> 22:35, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New banner suggestion

I propose a redesign to the banner Template:WPStatistics/NewBanner as shown below. I think this is cleaner looking and provides more info than the current banner {{WPStatistics}}. Any comments?

WikiProject Statistics

This article is within the scope of the WikiProject Statistics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of statistics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.
If you have questions about the project, please ask them on the project talk page.

Basic list – Portal – Article – Category – WikiProject – Stubs – Cleanup

—G716 <^T·_C> 02:39, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] T-table up for afd

T-table is on afd—G716 <^T·_C> 05:08, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

This has been relisted to allow more opinions ... so still time to say what you think. Melcombe (talk) 15:28, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Just as a side note, is this table correct? It gives a value of 1.96 at 97.5% at infinity, which I'm willing to bet a chance at an infinite amount of money is the value for 95%... SDY (talk) 00:54, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New template StatsTopicTOC

I created Template:StatsTopicTOC to mimic Template:MathTopicTOC, but simpler. I intentionally left out the TOC to List of statistics topics as that article is on a single page, rather than the multi-page math list. Comments? —G716 <^T·_C> 15:06, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] pseudo code in correlation article

I've suggested (here) removing pseudo-code from the correlation article. Any opinions? —G716 <^T·_C> 11:17, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] (Wilcoxon–)Mann–Whitney(–Wilcoxon) (U)

I'm not a statistician and therefore hesitate to edit stats articles. But I wonder about the terminology in one article: please see my comments here. Thank you. Tama1988 (talk) 09:53, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "Binomial sign test"

Binomial sign test is a redlink (not a redirect); neither binomial test nor sign test (I think) mentions the other. Ummm? Tama1988 (talk) 11:13, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Statistical mechanics

Does anyone have any thoughts on dealing with articles related to 'statistical mechanics', as these often aren't particularly related to "statistics". I know that this project has covered a lot that is not "statistics" but rather "probability", but at least it is useful to statistics. I have taken the step of putting the category for statistical mechanics directly under "Proability and statistics" and well as leaving it under "Statistics", for now at least. Melcombe (talk) 10:55, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

I agree, statistical mechanics uses probability theory but its not closely related to statistics. "Probabablistic mechanics" might be a more descriptive name really. I've changed the text at the top of category:statistical mechanics to agree with the lead of the statistical mechanics article and say that it "concerns the application of probability theory..." rather than "...of statistics" as it said before. I'd !vote for removing it from category:statistics. Qwfp (talk) 18:28, 28 November 2008 (UTC)