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STATISTICAL METHOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A method of analyzing or representing statistical data; a procedure for calculating a statistic
Synonyms:
statistical method; statistical procedure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("statistical method" is a kind of...):
method (a way of doing something, especially a systematic way; implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps))
Domain category:
statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "statistical method"):
least squares; method of least squares (a method of fitting a curve to data points so as to minimize the sum of the squares of the distances of the points from the curve)
multivariate analysis (a generic term for any statistical technique used to analyze data from more than one variable)
regression; regression toward the mean; simple regression; statistical regression (the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x))
Holonyms ("statistical method" is a part of...):
statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)
