Template talk:Statistics

Statistics Template‑class

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Should the template include notable statisticians? I think it may be too much, but what does everybody else think? Lilac Soul ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 08:23, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If we do, we should probably only include the top five or six or so. --Arcadian 11:47, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't seem relevant to me. The purpose of the template is to make it easier to navigate to related topics, and I think it's unlikely anyone will want to navigate from

R. A. Fisher. --Zvika 11:37, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply

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It sounds like a good idea to me, but perhaps it could be it's own navbox?

"Quite large" is, of course, relative. This template is bigger than a breadbox ({{

own) and the "Publications" section to keep the template from becoming list cruft. I'm not sure that some of the possible sub topics are big enough to rate a separate template. If this idea moves forward, I'll be willing to help out. Regards—G716 <^T·_C> 01:04, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply

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We could make it collapsible: {{

Herbs & spices}}—G716 <^T·_C> 01:12, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply

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or collapsible, with autoshow groups: {{

ProbDistributions}}—G716 <^T·_C> 05:57, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply

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We could use {{Least squares and regression analysis}} as one of the sub-topic templates.—G716 <^T·_C> 05:49, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed publications and history sections to reduce size of template. If anyone objects, please revert. —G716 <^T·_C> 12:20, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Econometrics

Perhaps have a separate template for the subset of statistics that pertains to econometrics? cancan101 (talk) 02:19, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think there is a subset of statistics that pertains only to econometrics. But that doesn't preclude having an econometrics Nav template as well: I don't know of there already is one. Melcombe (talk) 09:21, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Experimental design

Following the previous discussion, I augmented the template on design of experiments, resulting in the operational template Template:Experimental design. The template is designed for (somewhat) more knowledgable users, than is the basic statistics template. For example, Student's t is listed next to Hotelling's T, to provide context for the latter.