Data dredging — (data fishing, data snooping) is the inappropriate (sometimes deliberately so) use of data mining to uncover misleading relationships in data. Data snooping bias is a form of statistical bias that arises from this misuse of statistics. Any… … Wikipedia
Data mining — Not to be confused with analytics, information extraction, or data analysis. Data mining (the analysis step of the knowledge discovery in databases process,[1] or KDD), a relatively young and interdisciplinary field of computer science[2][3] is… … Wikipedia
Testing hypotheses suggested by the data — In statistics, hypotheses suggested by the data must be tested differently from hypotheses formed independently of the data.How to do it wrongFor example, suppose fifty different researchers, unaware of each other s work, run clinical trials to… … Wikipedia
Misuse of statistics — A misuse of statistics occurs when a statistical argument asserts a falsehood. In some cases, the misuse may be accidental. In others, it is purposeful and for the gain of the perpetrator. When the statistical reason involved is false or… … Wikipedia
Dredge (disambiguation) — Dredge or dredging may refer to: Dredging, underwater excavation work Dredge, California, former community in Butte County Dragline excavator, tool for dredging in mining; piece of heavy equipment used to remove overburden in an open pit or strip … Wikipedia
Prosecutor's fallacy — The prosecutor s fallacy is a fallacy of statistical reasoning made in law where the context in which the accused has been brought to court is falsely assumed to be irrelevant to judging how confident a jury can be in evidence against them with a … Wikipedia
Overfitting — Noisy (roughly linear) data is fitted to both linear and polynomial functions. Although the polynomial function passes through each data point, and the linear function through few, the linear version is a better fit. If the regression curves were … Wikipedia
List of statistics topics — Please add any Wikipedia articles related to statistics that are not already on this list.The Related changes link in the margin of this page (below search) leads to a list of the most recent changes to the articles listed below. To see the most… … Wikipedia
Experimenter's bias — In experimental science, experimenter s bias is subjective bias towards a result expected by the human experimenter. David Sackett,[1] in a useful review of biases in clinical studies, states that biases can occur in any one of seven stages of… … Wikipedia
List of mathematics articles (D) — NOTOC D D distribution D module D D Agostino s K squared test D Alembert Euler condition D Alembert operator D Alembert s formula D Alembert s paradox D Alembert s principle Dagger category Dagger compact category Dagger symmetric monoidal… … Wikipedia
Stepwise regression — In statistics, stepwise regression includes regression models in which the choice of predictive variables is carried out by an automatic procedure. [Hocking, R. R. (1976) The Analysis and Selection of Variables in Linear Regression, Biometrics,… … Wikipedia
