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History of statistics

David Salsburg's book is a good survey of the history of statistics. It contains 29 biographical chapters on statistics scholars. It would be a useful reference for anyone starting such a new main article. DFH 20:43, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rename proposal for this page and all the pages of the set this page belongs to

See the proposal at the Village pump

The Transhumanist 09:26, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

External links section

I propose that this section be removed. Comments? TheSeven (talk) 21:25, 6 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think all the external links should go (only "Online courses and textbooks" present now), apart from the "sisterlinks". Melcombe (talk) 09:59, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agree - this is list cruft, subject to spam and doesn't really add much. —G716 <^T·_C> 10:56, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

new topics to add?

If statistical model had some sensible content, I would suggest it be added here. There is a need for a link to a basic regression article which I don't think is covered by Regression toward the mean but, since there are so many, I don't now which one would be best: possibly simple linear regression. Melcombe (talk) 10:05, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Quick explanation of Wikipedia outlines

"Outline" is short for "hierarchical outline". There are two types of outlines: sentence outlines (like those you made in school to plan a paper), and topic outlines (like the topical synopses that professors hand out at the beginning of a college course). Outlines on Wikipedia are primarily topic outlines that serve 2 main purposes: they provide taxonomical classification of subjects showing what topics belong to a subject and how they are related to each other (via their placement in the tree structure), and as subject-based tables of contents linked to topics in the encyclopedia. The hierarchy is maintained through the use of heading levels and indented bullets. See Wikipedia:Outlines for a more in-depth explanation. The Transhumanist 00:10, 9 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong Content for Page

The contents of this page appear to be a misplaced copy of List of countries by life expectancy. This seems to have been caused by recent edits by the user WikiJunkie. These edits have the comment "Temporary change for the machine translation to work - will revert in a minute". Previous edits with this comment have indeed been reverted, but the latest one was not, leaving the page in a confusing state.

I'm not sure how to fix this, but I wanted to call attention to the problem. 208.52.164.152 (talk) 14:39, 18 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]