Statistical assumption — Statistical assumptions are general assumptions about statistical populations.Statistics, like all mathematical disciplines, does not generate valid conclusions from nothing. In order to generate interesting conclusions about real statistical… … Wikipedia
Population (disambiguation) — Population may refer to: *Population (human populations) **List of countries by population *Population biology, the biological study of animal populations *Statistical population *Metallicity, star populations *Population (album), an album by The … Wikipedia
Population decline — can refer to the decline in population of any organism, but this article refers to population decline in humans. It is a term usually used to describe any great reduction in a human population.[1] It can be used to refer to long term demographic… … Wikipedia
Statistical survey — Statistical surveys are used to collect quantitative information about items in a population. Surveys of human populations and institutions are common in political polling and government, health, social science and marketing research. A survey… … Wikipedia
Statistical discrimination — is an economic theory of inequality based on group stereotypes. In its simplest version, individuals are discriminated against because stereotypes are held against the groups they are associated with. This type of preferential treatment is… … Wikipedia
Population modeling — is an application of statistical models to the study of changes in populations.Models allow us to better understand how complex interactions and processes work. Modeling of dynamic interactions in nature can provide a manageable way of… … Wikipedia
Statistical probability — is a term sometimes used informally as a synonym for frequency probability, which identifies probability with relative frequency over a long series of events or the proportion of an event in a large population.There are several other… … Wikipedia
population — Statistical term denoting all the objects, events, or subjects in a particular class. Cf.:sample. [L. populus, a people, nation] * * * pop·u·la·tion .päp yə lā shən n 1) the whole number of people or inhabitants in a country or region 2 a) a body … Medical dictionary
POPULATION — THE JEWISH POPULATION Growth by Aliyah In 1882 the Jewish population of Ereẓ Israel numbered some 24,000, roughly 5% of the total, and about 0.3% of the world Jewish population. Since then there has been an almost continuous flow of aliyah, which … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Statistical hypothesis testing — This article is about frequentist hypothesis testing which is taught in introductory statistics. For Bayesian hypothesis testing, see Bayesian inference. A statistical hypothesis test is a method of making decisions using data, whether from a… … Wikipedia
