Time for a look at the stats I use given a certain sample size, with some examples from September for the purposes of concrete illumination.

In statistics, we talk about a “population” as being everyone that could possibly be included in a study, such as everyone who lives in New York City. In contrast, we talk about a “sample” as being a ...

Excel enables users to perform statistical functions such as STDEV, which calculates standard deviation based on a sample. In statistics, a standard deviation is a measure of the amount of ...

A unified approach to large-sample statistical methods is provided via a quadratic approximation. Various methods of estimation obtained by minimizing (or maximizing) an objective function, and those ...

The PGA Tour's implementation of Strokes Gained metrics have been a statistical breakthrough, but are they used properly during the season?

Multisample testing problems of this type arise frequently in directional statistics and shape analysis (as in other areas of statistics), but to date there has been relatively little discussion of ...