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Statistics

Averages, spread, percentiles, probability, the normal distribution, confidence intervals, sample sizes, correlation and regression.

Every page in this category shows which convention it uses, because statistics is full of choices that give different answers to the same data. A sample variance divides by n − 1 and a population variance by n. The 75th percentile of eight numbers is 5 by one standard method and 5.5 by another, and both are right. A confidence interval built on a small sample needs Student’s t rather than the normal distribution, or it comes out too narrow. A survey of 400 people out of a company of 500 has a much smaller margin of error than 400 out of a country. Where a page makes one of these choices, it says which, and it lets you pick where the choice is yours. Critical values are calculated exactly for any confidence level and any sample size, not read from a printed table, so a 97% interval or a sample of 37 needs no rounding to the nearest row. Probabilities are entered as percentages, and data sets are entered one value per row, with negative numbers and decimals allowed.