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...very successful free encyclopedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikipedia]. (The word wiki is from the Hawaiian word wiki-wiki meaning quick). ...

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==Wikipedia vandalism to U.S. Senators== ...ain_raped_wife_Obama_a_nudist_and_Hillary_has_a_penis methodical study] of Wikipedia's one hundred articles about the 100 U.S. Senators reveals that, on average ...

US-born, National Statistician [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Dunnell Karen Dunnell] said ==The Unbreakable Wikipedia?== ...

...,200 football matches played across 39 nations, focusing on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_World_Cup FIFA World Cup] or on Continental competitions One such strategy would be to short [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_contract futures] on both countries’ indices before an i ...

...is we need to describe how the Tradesports betting works. As explained by WikiPedia: ...

1. Go to the indispensible Wikipedia site [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch-Kincaid_Readability_Test here] to find Wikipedia goes on to state: ...

...of the name, according to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox Wikipedia], originated much later in 1971: The Wikipedia article has this “real-life example from a medical study comparing the su ...

...A general description of power laws from Wikipedia can be found [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution here]. <br> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WARREN_MITOFSKY Warren Mitofsky] considered by many to be the "fat ...

The Economist refers to this phenomenon as '[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Recency_bias&redirect=no recency bias]', ...inition of recency bias match Wikipedia's, where it is know as '[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronological_snobbery chronological snobbery'.] ...

...Britannica, a print encyclopedia edited by panel of 4,000 experts, to the Wikipedia, an Internet encyclopedia edited by a team of over 27,000 volunteers. ...e of the controversy] and tries to present a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view neutral point of view] about itself. ...

The authors use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient Gini value] to measure inequality on a scale from ..._Gini_coefficient.png gini measure of income inequality] is available from Wikipedia, along with time trends since the 1940s.) ...

3. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager Pascal’s Wager] is famous in religion, philosop [A] person should [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling wager] ...

...lating footballs now [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflategate has its own Wikipedia page]. Indeed, there have been seemingly daily updates in major papers and ...n one only considers outcomes where at least one of them occurs.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox] ...

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...in: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwell's_rule Cromwell's rule], from Wikipedia</div> <div align=right>Neuroscientist David Eagleman, referring to his [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possibilianism views about religion], 2009 radio interview</div> ...

According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeding_trial Wikipedia] Wikipedia then cites [http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199411173312007 a 1994 ...

...hallenged. But they were eventually overwhelmed by those of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequentist frequentist] school, which developed the methods, base ..., [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_distribution Erlang] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law power-law] ...

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunology Wikipedia says] ...the study of all aspects of the immune system in all organisms.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunology#cite_note-0] It deals with the physiological functionin ...

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_colic Wikipedia says] ...cky babies have been around ever since the human race emerged. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probiotic Probiotics], a linguistic hybrid, almost as long: ...

...most got the description of the optimal strategy for the famous [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem Secretary Problem] correct. What is missing from ...er's "statistic" is pretty common; for example, see Wikipedia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_approval_rating "United States presiden ...

...edicine) Screening (medicine)] (Wikipedia) and its subsection, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screening_(medicine)#Limitations_of_screening Limitations of scree ..., see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_mongering Disease mongering] (Wikipedia) and [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1434508 The fight agains ...

...s. Interesting on the anniversary of 9/11 is this reminder of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_of_estimative_probability#Policy_and_intelligence_failures_r ...

...org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors#Various_proposals_for_further_extension Wikipedia] the following quotations of well known statisticians relating to Types of See the Wikipedia article for references. ...

...e community. (The lack of preparation prior to the 9/11 attacks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_of_estimative_probability#Policy_and_intelligence_failures_r ...on the concept of anchoring, which [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring Wikipedia] describes as ...

...definition of IF, according to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor Wikipedia] “was devised by Eugene Garfield, the founder of the Institute for Scient ...

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_the_Spell:_Religion_as_a_Natural_Phenomenon Breaking the According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo Wikipedia], ...

...s head in 1967, according to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus_Moser his Wikipedia entry].) ...

As described in technical terms by Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient here], calculation of Gini coefficient is based o ...

...dergraduate student volunteers in solving the Monty Hall problem[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem] by trial and error: ...search in a new way. Inspired by open-source enterprises such as Linux and Wikipedia, it used blogs and a wiki to mediate a fully open collaboration. Anyone in ...

Kenneth Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem here] dryly “says that if the de [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_at_risk Value at Risk, from Wikipedia] ...

...been skeptical about meta-analysis will enjoy [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/New_cuyama.jpg/255px-New_cuyama.jpg this photograph] or ...it was only a matter of time - now you can be entertained by a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga manga] cartoon and learn about statistics at the same time: ...

...[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia “apophenia”] yielded the following Wikipedia entries:<br> The third is an instance of the game [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penney's_game Penney-Ante], invented by William Penney. It is a f ...

See the column for further discussion, including an example of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontransitive_dice non-transitive dice], the potential for non-tra ...://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochrane_Collaboration “Cochrane Collaboration”], Wikipedia<br> ...

Godwin's Law, as quoted at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_Law Wikipedia]. ...ational. These videos were popularized in part by the so-called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart_effect Mozart effect]. ...

The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_fund Wikipedia article on index funds] offers a historical perspective on index funds. Joh ...

...w to fix its statistical errors will be amused by the Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal_or_No_Deal_(UK) account] (See Predictable Sequence Controvers ...

...is an Irish low-cost airline. This [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryanair Wikipedia entry] reports ...has advocated national implementation of Kansas program called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Voter_Registration_Crosscheck_Program Interstate Voter ...

Since we have a 90% chance of winning our gamble, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_law_of_large_numbers#The_strong_law strong law of large num ...teralized_debt_obligations collateralized debt obligations] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_default_swap credit-default swaps]. ...

Particularly in this age of Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, and the internet, you can’t believe everything you read, hear o ...

...rove a forecast has a long history in statistics. There exists [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton a famous example of Francis Galton] of over 100 yea ...distribution, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law this interesting Wikipedia article]. ...

4. Welch often mentions the term, “incidentaloma.” Wikipedia says “In medicine, an incidentaloma is a tumor (-oma) found by coincide ...

...rg/wiki/Deal_or_No_Deal here] from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikipedia]. ...unctions at different levels of detail. They are similar to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_transform Fourier transform], but they encode both frequen ...

...oes not refer to Stephen Colbert’s even more famous neologism, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness truthiness] which ...y-licensed visual content published at Wikimedia Commons (a sister site of Wikipedia). While the subject matter of the photos may make some uncomfortable, the ...

The authors analysis is based on the complete set of NHES and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Health_Statistics NHANES] data collected betwe * The video was made by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Eames Charles and Ray Eames at IBM.] ...

...out Tamiflu with what appears in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oseltamivir Wikipedia about oseltamivir]. ...

...red for a serious earthquake? (Note that, according to Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_L%27Aquila_earthquake], someone who made a March 2009 predict ...acts.com/view/Facts/3350 "Coprophagia" and koala bears]. Go to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprophagia here] to see how common ...

...rue negative / (true negative + false negative). As is illustrated in the Wikipedia article, legitimate medical tests will tolerate a low positive predictive v ...nclusions about political science research be an example of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic “availability heuristic/fallacy”]?<br> ...

From Wikipedia we read: The second gives more information about the merits of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product gross domestic product (GDP)] relative to o ...

...tions within the family for intellectual stimulation of the low [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_order birth-order] siblings ...between birth order and intelligence dates back to the polymath [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton Sir Francis Galton's] book [http://galton.org/books ...

This formula does have its problems. A Wikipedia article notes that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Reader]</blockquote> ...

...s another variant, cited in [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_E._P._Box Wikipedia]: This was actually an issue [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Everett_Koop#Government_service about 25 years ago, when C. Eve ...

...http://www.ft.com Financial Times], outlines a variation on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_Problem Monty Hall problem], ...oes on to speculate that this irrationality may explain why the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equity_premium equity premium] in finance is so high – volatile ...

According to Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craps], in the game of craps, a shooter rolls a pair of dice until ...

...s head in 1967, according to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus_Moser his Wikipedia entry].) ...