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  2. Category:Statistical laws - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Statistical laws" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Benford's law;

  3. Empirical statistical laws - Wikipedia

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    For example, a ranked list of US metropolitan populations also follow Zipf's law, [8] and even forgetting follows Zipf's law. [9] This act of summarizing several natural data patterns with simple rules is a defining characteristic of these "empirical statistical laws".

  4. List of probability distributions - Wikipedia

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    Benford's law, which describes the frequency of the first digit of many naturally occurring data. The ideal and robust soliton distributions. Zipf's law or the Zipf distribution. A discrete power-law distribution, the most famous example of which is the description of the frequency of words in the English language.

  5. Social statistics - Wikipedia

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    Social statistics is the use of statistical measurement systems to study human behavior in a social environment. This can be accomplished through polling a group of people, evaluating a subset of data obtained about a group of people, or by observation and statistical analysis of a set of data that relates to people and their behaviors.

  6. Lists of statistics topics - Wikipedia

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    List of analyses of categorical data; List of fields of application of statistics; List of graphical methods; List of statistical software. Comparison of statistical packages; List of graphing software; Comparison of Gaussian process software; List of stochastic processes topics; List of matrices used in statistics; Timeline of probability and ...

  7. List of statistics articles - Wikipedia

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    List of scientific journals in statistics; Topic lists. Outline of statistics; List of probability topics; Glossary of probability and statistics; Glossary of experimental design; Notation in probability and statistics; List of probability distributions; List of graphical methods; List of fields of application of statistics; List of stochastic ...

  8. Campbell's law - Wikipedia

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    Campbell's law is an adage developed by Donald T. Campbell, a psychologist and social scientist who often wrote about research methodology, which states: . The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.

  9. List of fields of application of statistics - Wikipedia

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    Econometrics is a branch of economics that applies statistical methods to the empirical study of economic theories and relationships. Environmental statistics is the application of statistical methods to environmental science. Weather, climate, air and water quality are included, as are studies of plant and animal populations.