Wikipedia:WikiProject Statistics
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Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group, whose aim is:
- To improve Wikipedia's coverage of statistics and the organization of information and articles on this topic.
This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to do lists below.
This WikiProject covers articles related to statistics, including the history of statistics and biographies of statisticians. Articles within its scope include those in:
- List of statistics topics
- Category:Statistics and its sub-categories
- Category:Statisticians and its sub-categories
An expandable tree view of subcategories of Category:Statistics is available at 22 November 2025, there are 5,430 articles within the scope of WikiProject Statistics, of which 3 are featured and 22 are good articles. This makes up 0.08% of the articles on Wikipedia, 0.03% of all featured articles and lists, and 0.05% of all good articles. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etc., there are 14,474 pages in the project.
A ranking of articles on statistical topics by recent page views is at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Statistics/Popular_pages.
The list of statistics topics is being extended to include existing articles not previously listed and any new or unlisted statistics-related articles should be added. The list contains over 2750 items, including some redirects (18 February 2013: was 2642 on 17 October 2011; 2233 on 29 July 2009; 1731 on 31 December 2008; and 945 on 22 May 2008). The list is not at present very sophisticated and this project could undertake general improvements given that lists are far more versatile than categories. Look at lists of mathematics topics for examples.
Some priority articles that the project hopes to make progress with are those in:
- Category:Statistics stubs (320 articles)
- Category:Statistics articles needing expert attention (28 articles)
Here are general guidelines for different types of articles in the project.
- Consider adding one of these navigational boxes to the end of the article:
- {{Statistics }} (example: Statistical hypothesis testing)
- {{Least squares and regression analysis }} (example: Nonlinear regression)
- {{Experimental design }} (example: Randomized block design)
- {{Medical research studies }} (example: Randomized controlled trial)
- {{Statistics journals }} (example: The American Statistician)
- {{ProbDistributions }} (example: Binomial distribution)
- {{Theory of probability distributions }} (example: Probability mass function)
- Tag the discussion page with
{{WPStatistics|importance= | class=}}- and (if there is substantial mathematics content)
{{maths rating|field=probability and statistics | importance= | class=}}- using appropriate values for the class and importance parameters as described here.
General statistics articles
- Use one or more sub-category of Category:Statistics
- Tag stubs with {{statistics-stub }}
Probability distributions
- Suggestions regarding the structure of articles about probability distributions are here
- Include either of these infoboxes (feel free to leave some parameters blank):
- Add an appropriate sub-category of Category:Probability distributions
- Tag stubs with {{probability-stub }}
Biographies of statisticians
- Include {{infobox scientist }} with all known information.
- Add Category:Statisticians or one of its sub-categories
- Make sure you follow the policy on Biographies of living persons
- Add
{{WikiProject Biography|s&a-work-group=yes}}to the article's discussion page (include{{WikiProject banner shell|blp=yes}}to the template for living persons) - Tag stubs with {{statistician-stub }}, {{UK-statistician-stub }} or {{US-statistician-stub }}
Article-related tasks
- Article requests : See requested articles in statistics, and in econometrics
- Cleanup : Articles in WikiProject Statistics are regularly scanned automatically for cleanup templates. A list of statistics articles that need cleanup is here. You can help by reviewing the list and correcting any deficiencies.
- Expand :
- Outline of statistics
- Outline of regression analysis
- Multivariate regression model needs detailed formulae for multivariate case
- Directional statistics to include measures of dispersion for circular data
- Conjoint analysis improve statement problem to be solved (more maths?)
- Overfitting could tie in test sets, the effects of high model complexity and curse of dimensionality as well as how adding noise sometimes alleviates the problem.
- Ancestral graph
- Spatial descriptive statistics which has essentially no content
- Likelihood function to remove bias towards Bayesian-only context
- mixed model spun out of redirect to multilevel model, but needs expansion
- Labour Force Survey needs expanding, including to improve geographic coverage
- Various Tsallis Pages, documented on Talk:Tsallis distribution#Tsallis Pages
- Joint probability distribution needs some examples, better examples, perhaps an explanation of uses and relationships with other concepts in statistics
- Bayesian linear regression alternative priors, advanced regression models, marginal densities, prior and posterior predictive density
- Monte Carlo sampling: Application to Approximate Bayesian Inference needs more explanation
- Approximate Bayesian Computation
- Cohen's h
- Double descent
- Merge :
- Financial modeling and Modeling and analysis of financial markets
- Monte Carlo methods in finance and Monte Carlo methods for option pricing
- Variogram (which is redirected from semivariogram) and Semivariance
- Linear predictor function into Linear model
- Split :
- Parameter into separate articles accessible from disambig pages
- Effect size into separate articles for each metric
- Stubs :
- Verify :
- Sampling distribution case of sampling from a finite population?
- Other :
- Attend to
- Category:Statistics articles needing expert attention (28 articles)
- Category:Probability articles needing expert attention (1 articles)
- Redirects to convert to articles, or otherwise:
- Influence function (statistics) — currently redirects to Robust statistic
- hazard function
- Time-series regression presently redirects to Time-series
- Ridge regression presently redirects to Tikhonov regularization
- Regression splines presently redirects to Smoothing splines
- Fisher's protected LSD presently redirects to Post hoc analysis
- Hill estimator presently redirects to Heavy-tailed distribution
- Weibull chart presently redirects to Weibull distribution
- Groups of articles with substantial overlap:
- Truncation (statistics) and Truncated distribution
- Multiple testing correction and Multiple comparisons : need to separate multiple testing from "finding the best"
- Efficiency (statistics) and efficient estimator
- Variance and standard deviation
- Attend to
Administrative tasks
- Read WikiProject Council/Guide/WikiProject
- Edit , expand and amend this project page or any of its subpages
- Add the {{WPStatistics }} banner to the talk page of articles in List of statistics articles
- Invite editors with established statistical expertise to participate
- Discuss the best structure for article assessment
- Reorganize Category:Statistics and Category:Probability and statistics
- Expand the list above (and this one!)
- Set watches on these two lists to be informed of updates
An automatically generated list of new articles is available here, based on these rules.
Please feel free to list here any new statistics-related articles that you create or come across (newer articles at the top, please) and also add them to list of statistics topics.
- Bayesian hierarchical modeling 12 May 2014
- Foundations of statistics 2 Sept 2013 major expansion from stub
Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, do not have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.
- New templates and categories
Please add new categories to this list as well as here.
These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 27 August 2025 by HotArticlesBot.
Statistics WikiProject
The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Statistics}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Statistics articles by quality and Category:Statistics articles by importance.
Currently 7,237 pages have been tagged with the {{WikiProject Statistics}} template. Of these, 19 (0%) have not been assessed for quality and 1,009 (14%) have not been assessed for importance.
A log of recent changes in assessment is available here.
| Statistics articles by quality and importance | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
| FA | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| FL | 1 | 1 | |||||
| GA | 1 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 1 | 22 | |
| B | 47 | 60 | 57 | 102 | 24 | 290 | |
| C | 34 | 178 | 236 | 467 | 122 | 1,037 | |
| Start | 7 | 161 | 391 | 1,542 | 620 | 2,721 | |
| Stub | 12 | 75 | 901 | 204 | 1,192 | ||
| List | 1 | 17 | 24 | 82 | 2 | 20 | 146 |
| Category | 1,108 | 1,108 | |||||
| Disambig | 14 | 14 | |||||
| File | 5 | 5 | |||||
| Project | 34 | 34 | |||||
| Redirect | 1 | 8 | 24 | 90 | 357 | 480 | |
| Template | 111 | 111 | |||||
| NA | 6 | 6 | |||||
| Other | 40 | 40 | |||||
| Assessed | 91 | 438 | 813 | 3,199 | 1,677 | 991 | 7,209 |
| Unassessed | 1 | 18 | 19 | ||||
| Total | 91 | 438 | 813 | 3,200 | 1,677 | 1,009 | 7,228 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 25,819 | Ω = 4.90 | |||||
Articles for deletion
- 16 Nov 2025 – Free statistical software (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by BlockArranger (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
- 31 Oct 2025 – Network Science Based Basketball Analytics (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Gabefarkas (t · c); see discussion (6 participants; relisted)
- 30 Oct 2025 – SegReg (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Apocheir (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 06 Nov 2025; see discussion (4 participants)
- 30 Oct 2025 – CumFreq (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Apocheir (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 06 Nov 2025; see discussion (4 participants)
Good article nominees
- 07 Aug 2025 – Florence Nightingale (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Thelifeofan413 (t · c); see discussion
Good article reassessments
- 18 Nov 2025 – Fleiss's kappa (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion
Peer reviews
- 28 Oct 2025 – Heritability of IQ (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Katzrockso (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 27 Oct 2025 – Miwin's dice (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Intransitive dice by Closed Limelike Curves (t · c); see discussion
- 02 Nov 2025 – Crime statistics in the United Kingdom (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Crime_in_the_United_Kingdom by Gilgongo (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Articles to be split
- 01 Mar 2021 – Ratio distribution (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Fgnievinski (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 22 Nov 2025 – Draft:Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball statistical leaders (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by SamLongboard (t · c)
- 13 Nov 2025 – Draft:Modeest (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ο ηλίθιος (t · c)
- 07 Nov 2025 – Draft:Chapman-Kolmogorov differential form (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Tommaso Talli (t · c)
- 03 Nov 2025 – Draft:Generalized method of wavelet moments (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 2A04:EE41:83:567D:18CA:1378:46D9:A10F (t · c)
- 02 Nov 2025 – Draft:FargoRate (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by MikepageOBX (t · c)
- 21 Oct 2025 – Draft:Hilberg's hypothesis (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 31.183.133.47 (t · c)
- 17 Oct 2025 – Draft:Ryan Tibshirani (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by BeyondTwoSigma (t · c)
- 19 Sep 2025 – Draft:False Confidence Theorem (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by LackingConfidence (t · c)
- 30 Oct 2025 – Draft:Denise Britz do Nascimento Silva (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Ubadif (t · c) was declined by Guninvalid (t · c) on 15 Nov 2025
- 14 Oct 2025 – Draft:Philipp Otto (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Elkanah.Nyabuto (t · c) was declined by GreenRedFlag (t · c) on 09 Nov 2025
- (4 more...)
- Good articles
- 1961 Indonesian census
- AP Statistics
- Muthu Alagappan
- Algorithmic bias
- Ars Conjectandi
- Behavioural genetics
- Convex hull
- Demographic history of Scotland
- Demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Fleiss's kappa
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Hidden Markov model
- JMP (statistical software)
- Maximum spacing estimation
- Metallic Metals Act
- Nearest-neighbor chain algorithm
- Dorothy P. Rice
- SAS (software)
- SAS Institute
- Shapley–Folkman lemma
- Theil–Sen estimator
- Francis Amasa Walker
- Former good articles
- Did you know? articles
- 1703 Icelandic census
- 1961 Indonesian census
- James Nwoye Adichie
- Muthu Alagappan
- Algorithmic bias
- Bivariate analysis
- Kenneth A. Bollen
- Bradley–Terry model
- Crime statistics in the United Kingdom
- Demographics of Canada
- Aryeh Dvoretzky
- Gustav Elfving
- Extended Kalman filter
- Fang Kaitai
- Fertility factor (demography)
- GRIM test
- Alec Gallup
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Geometric median
- Geometric stable distribution
- Amy H. Herring
- Hierarchical generalized linear model
- Historical demography
- History of randomness
- Robert V. Hogg
- Holtsmark distribution
- In silico clinical trials
- Iterative proportional fitting
- Jackknife resampling
- Jadad scale
- Svante Janson
- Journal of the Royal Statistical Society
- Least-squares spectral analysis
- Alfred Legoyt
- Log-Cauchy distribution
- Henry Mann
- Misleading graph
- James P. M. Ntozi
- Occupancy frequency distribution
- Occupational epidemiology
- Outcome switching
- Jan Piekałkiewicz
- Race and ethnicity in censuses
- Randomised decision rule
- Rating scales for depression
- Revolution Analytics
- Sampling frame
- Schuette–Nesbitt formula
- Shapley–Folkman lemma
- Square root biased sampling
- Statistics of Deadly Quarrels
- Theil–Sen estimator
- Ulpian's life table
- Univariate analysis
- Variable and attribute (research)
- Francis Amasa Walker
- Working–Hotelling procedure
-
Anscombe's quartet 3
- Projects
- WikiProject Data Visualization
- WikiProject Mathematics
- WikiProject Probability (currently inactive)
- WikiProject Science
- WikiProject Philosophy
- Statistics Department (statistics about Wikipedia, currently inactive)
- Media related to Statistics at Wikimedia Commons
- Portals
Article categories
- Here is a list of statistics categories for articles.
- Please try to assign articles to an appropriate sub-category of Category:Statistics rather than the top level.
Other categories
- All categories tagged with the {{WPStatistics }} project template appear in Category:Category-Class Statistics articles.
- See Category:WikiProject Statistics for a list of administrative categories in this project.
- You can add your username to Category:Wikipedian statisticians by including "[[Category:Wikipedian statisticians]]" on your userpage.
- Articles that show the {{WPStatistics }} banner on the talk page are automatically included in Category:WikiProject Statistics articles.
