AAA.-- American Academy of Advertising AAAA.-- American Association of Advertising Agencies AAF.-- American Advertising Federation ABC.

-- Audit Bureau of Circulations ABC.-- Classification system ABP.-- American Business ACB.-- The Advertising Checking Bureau Accordion Theory Accountability principle AE ---- Account Executive Accounting information ACM.-- Andean Common Market ACME.--- Association of Consulting Management Engineers Adaptation-level theory Adaptive behavior Adaptive-control models Adaptive product Administered channel systems Administered prices Administered vertical marketing systems Advertisement analysis chart Advertiser's brand Advertising agencies Advertising agency commission Advertising allowance Advertising appropriation Advertising budget Advertising campaign Advertising checking bureau Advertising delivery Advertising department Advertising effectiveness Advertising media selection Advertising norms report Advertising objectives

ABC

Advertising policy Advertising readability Advertising research Advertising Research Foundation Advertising space Advertising strategy Advertising susceptibility Advertising theme Advertising theme decisions Advisory Council on Minority Business Enterprise Affectional drives After only with control group design "After the sale" assurances Agent Agents' intermediaries Agent middleman Agent middleman commission houses Agent wholesalers Aggregate consumer purchasing power Aided-Recall Method All-available-fund method Allocation models AMA --- American Marketing Association AMA --- Automobile Manufacturers Association American Association of Collegiate Schoois of Business American Economic Association American Management Association American Society for Testing and Materials American Society of Traffic and Transportation American Standards Association (ASA)

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American Supply and Machinery Manufacturers Association American Warehousemen's Association Analog Data Analysis of Variance Annual Marketing Plan Annual Survey of Consumer Finances Antimerger Act Antimonopoly laws Appeals Approaching the customer Aptitade tests Area Structure Artificial Obsolescence Assemblers of farm products Assignment model Association of National Advertisers Assortment Plan Assortment strategy At-home selling At-The-Market Prices Attitude testing Attitudinal measurement Attribute Attrition Rate Auction Company Audience Accumulation Audience analysis Audience authentication Audience characteristics Audience classification Audience composition Audience duplication Audience effect Audience exposure Audience size measurement Autocratic organizational Automatic Interaction Detector (AID) analysis Automatic merchandising

Automatic Reorder Automatic replenishment plan Automatic Retailing Automatic Selling Automatic vending Average-cost pricing Averaging reorder strategy Bachelor stage Back-Door selling Backing activities Backward integration Bait advertising Balanced-line selling Balanced selling Banner-Line Bar Chart Barter Broker Barter syndication Basement Store Basic price Basic Stock Basing-point pricing systems Batch Controls Batch Process management information systems Battle of the brands Bayes' Rule Bayesian analytical approach Bayesian decision theory Before-after correlation test Before-after with control group Behavior of buyers Behavior patterns Behavioral Science Belly-to-Belly Selling Below-cost sales Benefit bundle analysis Benefit segmentation Bias in questionnaires Biased testimonial rule Bid Bid peddling "Black box" models Black market

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Blanket Brand Body Type Bogus ad. tests Boiler-shop operations Bonded Warehouse Bonding Bonds Boom-or-bust business Borden case Boycott Brainstorming Brand Brand acceptance Brand awareness Brand-choice decisions Brand-choice problems Brand decisions Brand differences Brand dissimilarity Brand emulation Brand-extension strategy Brand image Brand Label Brand loyalty Brand-mix model Brand naming Brand policy Brand preferences Brand proliferation principle Brand purchase probability model Brand share (or market share ) Brand Switching Break-even analysis Break-even point Broadcast media Broadening Marketing Concept Broad-line competitor Broker Budget Promotional Bullishness Business buying behavior Business Cycle Business-directed

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Business ethics Business forecasting Business Management Business objectives Business organization marketing Business ownership Buy-and-sell transport Buy grid Buyer behavior Buyer innovation Buyer-salesman interaction Buyer-seller relationships Buyer's market Buyer's surplus Buyer's wheel Buying allowance Buying by description Buying by inspection Buying by sample Buying committees Buying distribution Buying policies Buying power Buying-power index Buying-power quota Buying practices Call strategy Call system Campaign design Campaign planning Canonical correlation analysis Capital budgeting Captive Customers Car-lot wholesaler Cash market Cash on delivery Cash register Cash with order Cash-and-carry wholesalers Catalog showroom Catalog stores Catalog warehouse Catalogue sales

Central market Central-peripheral pattern Certification mark Chain store system Chain stores Channel captain Channel competition Channel conflict Channel control Channel cost analysis Channel decisions Channel-design Channel differences Channel flows Channel length Channel loyalty Channel-management Channel modification channel strategy Channel systems Channels of communication Channels of distribution Channels of promotion Characteristics of business buying Characteristics of goods theory Classification of media Clayton act Client relationship Climax order Closed-end question Cluster analysis Cochran Q test Code price Cognitive dissonance Collective bargaining Customer's preference Combination payment plan Combination sale Comic advertisements Commerce clause Commercial attache Commercial environment Commercial perception weights

Commercial protection Commercialization Commission agent Commission broker Commission distributor Commission merchant Commission operated station Commission pools Commission reseller Commission system Commission wholesale Committee on Printed Advertising Rating Methods Commodity Credit Corporation Commodity flows Communication-stage model Communications effect Communications mix Communications research Communications source Communications theory Community shopping centers Company sales forecast Company sales potential Comparative marketing systems Comparative monadic test Comparative scale Compare-a-price Competing brands Competitive bid Competitive bidding Competitive parity method Complementary products Composite commodity theorem Concentrated marketing Conditional payoff matrix Conditional sale Conglomerate integration Conglomerate market Conglomerate market competition Conmmodity Credit Consigned limit Consignee

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Consignment Consignment buying Consignment distributor Consignment sales Consignment service station Consignment terms Consultation services Consumer acceptance theory Consumer affairs department Consumer attitudes Consumer behavior Consumer Council Consumer credit Consumer expenditures Consumer exploitation Consumer farm products Consumer information sources Consumer jury Consumer jury test Consumer legislation Consumer manipulation Consumer market Consumer market segmentation Consumer measurement Consumer packaged product Consumer panel Consumer pollsters Consumer price index Consumer privilege Consumer protection Consumer Reports Consumer rights Consumer's risk Consumer satisfaction Consumer sovereighty Consumer spending Consumer surveys Consumer use tests Consumer welfare Consumerism Consumers' cooperative Consumers' goods Consumption Consumption systems

Containerization Contingency planning Continuity Program Contra sale contract Contract manufacturing Contractual vertical marketing systems Contribution margin Control of marketing operations Control system Controllable factors Controlled and uncontrolled variables Controlled test marketing convenience stores Convenience sample Conventional display Convergent marketing Convergent production Conveyor belt effect Cooperative marketing associations Corporate advertising Corporate chain store system Corporate image Corporate social objectives Corporate vertical marketing systems Countermarketing Creative marketing projects Creativity Credit buying Credit Card Credit investigator Cumulative quantity discounts Cultural organization marketing Customary pricing Customer Customer awareness Customer buying motives Customer buying patterns Customer call norms Customer feedback systems Customer franchise

Customer grid Customer groups Customer Holdover Effect Customer loyalty Customer mix Customer needs Customer orientation Customer persuasion Customer profitability Customer purchase plan survey Customer relations Customer Retention Rate Customer satisfaction Customer service Customer service level Customers buy Customer's buying habits Customer's excuses Customer's preference Cyclical responsiveness Damaged merchandise Data banks Data processing Deal-pack Deal-proneness Dealer Dealer cooperative advertising Dealer helps Dealer margins Dealer premium Dealer's privilege Dealer program Dealer purchases Dealer-servicing salesmen Dealer tie-in advertising Dealer tie-in sales Decentralization of purchasing Deceptive marketing practices Decline stage of PLC Declining distinctiveness Degree of market control Delayed Response Effect Delivery route selling Delivery service

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Delphi techniquetechnological forecasting Demand analysis Demand-Backward Pricing Demographic segmentation Demonstrating merchandise Department Store Departmental specialty stores Deposit Sale Detail salesman Daily method Differentiated marketing Direct advertising Direct channel Direct Mail Advertising Association DMAA Direct premium Direct selling Direct-sale Discount Discount houses Discount stores Discount structure Discretionary Buying Power Discretionary costs Discretionary expenditures Discretionary income Discriminant analysis Disposal agency Distress Merchandise Distribution centers (see also Warehouses) Distribution channels Distribution decisions Distribution leverage Distribution network Distribution points Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) Distributor Divergent marketing Divergent production Diversification Do-it-yourself market

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Dollar margin pricing Dominant firm Door-to-door selling Double-carding Double spotting Drop shippers Drummer Dual channel system Dual distribution Dual loyalty patterns Dual merchandising Dutch Aution Dutch Doors Dynamic market Economic effects of advertising Economic risks Economic shopers Economic value Economical order quantity Economical quantities Economics of scale Educational level segmentation Effect on consumer spending Effect on predictions Effective buying income Effective circulation Effects of advertising Efficiency of marketing management Elasticity of price Eliminating products Emotional appeals Empirical study Employee benefits Emulation stage Emulative product Engel's Laws Enlightended marketing Environmental influences Environmental mix Environmental stimuli Environmental threat Equal-store Esteem Value

Ethical advertising Ethical issues in marketing Ethnic core market European Common Market European Economic Community European Free Trade Area European Free Trade Association Evolution of marketing orientation Exchange activities Exchange efficiency Exclusive channel of distribution Exclusive dealing Exclusive distinctiveness Exclusive distribution Exclusive outlet selling Exclusive selling Exhibit Designers & Producers Association Expectation effect Expected net present value Expected value of perfect information Expenditure patterns Expense center Expense control plans Expense items Expense-to-sales ratios Experience survey Experience-curve effect Experimental demonstration Experimental design Experimental method in marketing Experimental pricing Exploratory shopping phase Express warranty Extensive problem solving Extent of market Extinction price Face-to-face groups

Factor analysis Factor in market change Facilitating agencies Facilitating Functions Fair Packaging and Labeling Act Fair-trade Laws Family buying behavior Feasibility in marketing Feedback principle Feedbacks Field Sales manager field warehousemen Field Sales Force Final consumer Firm Firm Market Flexible markup price Flexible-price policy Floor stock Follow-through sales Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food gift package business Forecasting customer demand Forecasting market demand Foreign customers Foreign manufacture Foreign markets Foreign trade Formula pricing Forward Buying Forward market Freight Equalization Functions in competition Functions of exchange Futures Market General merchandise General merchandise wholesalers General stores General Consumer General-line wholesaler Geographic market

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Ghetto marketing Global market concept Global marketing program Government market Grading products of nature Grey markets Group marketing Growth rate of Consumption Habit-perception cycle Haggling and negotiation Hard-sell Hazardous Substances Labeling Act Hierarchy of effects (see buyer readiness stages) Hierarchy of marketing policies Hierarchy of promotional effects High-pressure salesmanship High-pressure selling Homogeneity,of markets Horizontal buy Horizontal channels Horizontal Competition Horizontal cooperative advertising Horizontal integration Horizontal marketing systems Houseparty selling House-to-house selling Howard-Sheth model of buyer behavior Human behavior Identified for sales forecasting Image Advertising Image of selling Imbricative Marketing Imitative Pricing Imperfect competition Implicit Costs Implicit promotional allowance Impulse buying Incentive wage plans

Incomplete optimization in market planning Incremental approach, advertising appropriation Incremental costs Incremental sales method Independent Grocers' Alliance (IGA) Independent stores Index of sales activity Indirect-action advertising Individual brands Indoctrination of new salesman Induced investment Industrial advertising Industrial buyers Industrial buying model Industrial distributors Industrial market Industrial marketing Industrial Products Industrial salesmen Industrial selling Industrial users (see also Industrial market) Initiative of salespeople Inner product Innovative marketing Inside marketing Inside salesman Installation and repair service Installment buying Installment sale Institute of Marketing Institute of Marketing and Industrial Market Research Institute of Sales and Marketing Executives Institutional brand preference Institutional Sales In-store salesmen Insurance advertisements Integrated channels

Integrated communications concept Integrated market logistics Integrated marketing Integrated retailing Integrated wholesaling Integration in competitive system Integration of logistics and marketing systems Intensity of territory coverage Intensive channel of Interdependence of consumers Interindustry competition Internal Revenue Service Regulations International Council on Advertising Practice International market International marketing International Marketing Federation (IMF) International Newspaper Advertising Executives (INAE) International Newspaper Promotion Association International product extension International trade product life cycle International Union of Advertisers Associations (IUAA) Interpublic advertising agency group Interpurchase times Interview Intra-industry competition Inventory control Inventory decisions Inventory management Inventory Overage Inventory policies Inventory Stock Shortage Inventory Turnover

Inventory valuation Inverted pricing Iso-sales curves Job-lot Joint decision as an output Joint ventures Labeling Leading questions Leasing Legislation affecting marketing Legislation in marketing Levels of operation Limited-line strategy Line marketing Local market Location Location of markets Logistics marketing system decision Low-competence buyers Low-pressure selling Low-price appeal MAAN--Mutual Advertising Agency Network MAB-- Magazine Advertising Bureau Macro marketing system Macro-marketing Macrosales model Made or buy decision Magazine Publishers Association Mail order Mail order Retailing Mail order wholesaler Mail questionnaires Mail survey Mail order house Make or buy strategy Management by exception Management by objectives Management contracting Management Myopia Management of advertising

Management review Management science Management science system Managerial accounting Managerial decision problems Managerial decisions Managerial hierarchy Managerial innovation Managerial philosophies Manufacturer-dealer systems Manufacturers Manufacturers' agent Manufacturer's brand Manufacturers' representative Manufacturer's sales branch Manufacturer's sales office Marginal analysis Markdown Market acceptance Market acceptance and adjustment Market acceptance stage Market basket pricing Market-buildup method Market change Market characteristics Market cleavage Market conditions Market demand functions Market entry strategy Market exposure Market-extension conglomerate Market forecast Market Grades Market grid Market information Market integration Market investigation Market knowledge Market maturity Market-minus pricing Market modification Market penetration Market planning

Market position Market positioning Market potentials Market research Market research directory Market response market results measurement Market rivals Market saturation Market segmentation Market selection decision Market share determination Market simulation Market simulation studies Market specialization Market standing Market strategy development Market structure Market targeting Market transactions Market trends Market veto power Marketer typology Marketing Marketing allocation Marketing applications Marketing audit Marketing budget Marketing business Marketing channels Marketing communication Marketing Concept Marketing Consciousness Marketing control Marketing controller concept Marketing cooperative Marketing cost analysis Marketing cost analysis Marketing decisioninformation system Marketing department Marketing domain Marketing Efficiency Marketing environment

Marketing factor elasticity Marketing failures Marketing financing Marketing Function Marketing goal Marketing history Marketing Information Marketing Information System Marketing Intelligence Marketing Intelligence system Marketing intermediaries Marketing logistics Marketing management Marketing manager Marketing Mix Marketing-mix decisions Marketing myopia Marketing objectives Marketing opportunities Marketing organization Marketing-oriented Marketing-oriented company Marketing planning process Marketing principles Marketing productivity Marketing programs Marketing regulation Marketing research Marketing revolution Marketing Risks Marketing strategy Marketing systems Marketing thoughts Marketing trends Marketing value Markov-process model Markups Marshallian demand theory Marshallian model Mass medium Materialism Materials handling Mature product Mature product strategy

Maturity stage Measure of buying power Measurement of product Measurement of salesman performance Media allocation Media models Media research Media selection Merchandise agent Merchandise budget Merchandise displays Merchandise inventory Merchandise line Merchandise testing bureau Merchandise warehouse Merchandising functions Merchant Merchant wholesaler Message channel Message decisions Message design Message planning Message quality Message theme Microbehavioral sales model Microcomponent sales model Micro-sales analysis Milking strategy Mill market Missionary salesman Missionary selling MLM--Multi-Level Mobile advertising Mode of operation Models for analyzing buyers Modified rebuy Modified freeenterprise system Money value Multibrand policy Multidimensional scaling Multi-echelon structure (physical distribution models) Multiline department store

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Multinational marketing Multipack packaging Multiple store Multiple-unit Pricing Multistage pricing Neighborhood center New product New product adoption process New sales territory problem Nonconsumable goods Obsolescence stage Occupational prestige Occupational profiles Occupational status Odd Pricing Odd-lot dealer Office equipment Oligopolistic competition Omnibus Cooperative Advertisement On-air Testing One-price policy One-stop shopping concept On-line information system On-line management information system Open questions Open-End Commercial Open-end pricing Open-end program Open-end questions Open-recruit system Open-to-buy control Operating expenses Operational diversification Opinion leadership Opinion testing Opportunity cost Optimistic reorder strategy Optimistic time Optimization techniques Optimum (Sample) Allocation Order of merit tests Order status report

Order-shipping-billing cycle Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) Organizational marketing Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) Outdoor advertising Outdoor Buyers' Guide Outdoor medium Out-of-stock Outpost display Over-compensation effect Over-the-counter market Package carriers Package design illustration Package plan Package program Package testing Packaging legislation Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute Panel research Participative commercials Party selling Patronage motives Payoff matrix Penetration price Percentage of sales method Per-cent-of-sales approach Perception and consumer behavior Performance and quality guarantees Performance appraisal Performance disclosure Performance evaluation Performance specifications Performance standard Periodic reordering Perpetual inventory system Person-oriented

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Personal consumption spending Personal data sheet (resume) Personal disposable income Personal goalsetting Personal history analysis Personal interview method Personal selling Personality and persuasibility Personalizing shoppers Persuasive communication Pessimistic reorder strategy Physical and psychological buying motives Physical distribution Physical distribution strategy Physical environment Physiological reaction Pilot test Pioneering advertising Pioneering stage Plan testing Planned obsolescence Planned shopping center Planning and forecasting Planning horizon Planning information Planning premises Planning-theory Point-of-purchase Point-of-purchase advertising Point-of-purchases display Political organization marketing Pool distribution Pooling Portfolio foreign investment Portfolio tests (in advertising research) Positioning of product Possessing utility Posters Post-tests Potential competition Potential competition doctrine Pragmatic Validity

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Preapproach in selling Preclusive buying Predetermined selling expenses Predictive theory Preference distribution analysis Preference ordering Preference theory Preliminary research Prepricing Pre-production campaign Preretailing Present value method Pretesting Pretesting advertisements Preventing damage Price adjustments Price administration Price appeal Price-aura effect Price discrimination Price elasticity of demand Price flexbility policies Price guarantees Price index Price-level policies Price per unit Price reasonableness Price reduction Price sensitivity Price setting Price-setters Pricing Pricing decisions Pricing factors Pricing objectives Pricing policies Pricing procedure Pricing psychology Pricing strategy Primary buying motive Primary central market Primary data Primary-demand advertising Primary-demand stimulation

Primary market Primary source Principles of consumer cooperatives Private brands Processing privileges Procurement department Producer satisfaction Producers Producers' goods Producer's risk Product abandonment Product adaptation Product analysis Product and communications extension Product appeals Product approach Product-attribute decisions Product characteristics Product class Product classifications Product class's choice criteria Product-concept decisions Product concept testing Product conditions Product decisions Product deletion Product design Product Development Product development decisions Product differentiation Product diversification Product diversity Product duplication Product-extension Conglomerate Product feature approach Product group approach Product image Product improvement Product innovation Product introduction Product labeling

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Product liability Product life cycle Product line Product line decisions Product line expansion product-line pricing Product manager decisions Product-manager system Product management system Product-market analysis Product-market scope Product market organization Product market relationship Product mix Product modification Product packaging Product planning Product planning and budgeting Product planning and development Product protection Product pruning Product quality Product question Product research Product sales organization Product segmentation Product sensitivity Product service factors Product service mix Product-service package valuation Product-shipments data Product specifications Product strategy Product testing Product types Product usage Production department Production engineering Production function Production inventory control Production lines Production-market integration

Production of competitive Production planning illustration Production record Production-oriented diversification Productive capacity Productivity Professional advertising Profit center Profit contribution Profit margins Profit maximization Profit models Profitability control Profitability estimate Profit-oriented Profit-oriented objectives Profit-volume analysis Program analyzer Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT.) Project planning decisions Promoting and selling Promotion Promotion experimentation Promotion opportunity Promotion strategy Promotional activities Promotional assistance Promotional competition Promotional decision game Promotional decisions Promotional discounts Promotional effectiveness Promotional games Promotional mix Promotional objectives Promotional orientation Promotional package Promotional value Promotional warranties Propensity to consume Propensity to spend Protective packaging

Protective warranty Psychographic market segmentation Psychological and physical buying motives Psychological law of suggestion selling Psychological segmentation Psychological tests Public environment Public sector Public service Public transportation Purchase behavior Purchase discounts purchase motivation study Purchase transition matrix Purchase-probability surveys Purchasing Purchasing agents Purchasing function Purchasing managers Purchasing officer Purchasing performance Purchasing power Purchasing procedures Purchasing process Purchasing strategies Purchasing unit Pure competition Pure monopoly Purely competitive pricing Pushing policy Pyramid sales schemes Q-analysis Qualified expert rule Qualitative information Qualitative market analysis Quality Quality effect Quality image Quality index Quality of life Quality stores

Quality-cost ratio Quantitative market analysis Quantity discounts Quarterly Survey of Consumer Buying Intentions Queueing theory Quota Quota sampling Rack Jobber Rack merchandiser Randomized block design Rating scales Readability studies Readers per dollar Readership study Readership test Receipt-of-goods terms Reciprocal buying Redemption center Reference groups Refusal-to-deal Regional brands Regional center Regional demand functions Regional shopping center Regional Wholesaler Register marks Regulation of advertising Regulation of products Regulation of selling Religious organization marketing Remarketing Reminder advertising Reminder impulse buying Repetitive buying Replacement demand Replacing economics Representative sample Repurchase rate Resale price Resale price maintenance Research design Research facilities

Reseller Reseller market Reseller salesman Resident buyers Resident buying office Resident salesman Respondent selection Response Rate Response variable Responsibility cost analysis Retail trade Retail advertiser Retail advertising Retail stores Retail buying procedures Retail center Retail method of inventory valuation Retail rate Retail service association Retail store cooperative Retailers Retailer cooperative chains Retailer-cooperative organizations Retailer-sponsored cooperative Retailing Retailing trends Risk-aversion Risk-perference Rival goods Routinized response behavior Safety costing Safety stocks Sales Activity Index (SAI) Sales administration Sales analysis Sales and delivery support Sales aptitude Sales-area test Sales branches Sales call norms Sales career Sales clerk

Sales compensation plan Sales coordination Sales data Sales decay costant Sales demonstration Sales effectiveness index Sales effects Sales employees Sales engineer Sales executive Sales expense Sales fertility Sales finance Sales force Sales force administration Sales force composite Sales force management Sales-force decisions Sales-force opinion polling Sales-force organization Sales-force recruiting Sales force strategy Sales forecast Sales-getting costs Sales-maintenance costs Sales management program Sales message Sales organization research Sales-oriented Sales-oriented objectives Sales policies Sales potential model Sales potentials Sales predictions Sales price quality Sales price size Sales-profit relationship Sales promotion Sales promotion Executives Association (SPEA) Sales promotion representatives Sales promotion tools Sales prospects Sales quota

Sales report systems Sales representative Sales resistance Sales response curve Sales response function Sales-results test Sales supervision Sales targets Sales techniques Sales territories Sales territory design Sales training Sales training methods Sales training program Sales variance analysis Sales volume Sales volume and advertising Sales volume goal setting Salesman's work plan Salesmen Salesmen evaluation Salesmen training Salesmen routing Salespeople Sampling Sampling statistics Schedule pricing Scheduling salesman's calls Screening process Seasonality in production Second sales Secondary central market Secondary data Secondary shopping district Secondary trading area Second-line (degree) price discrimination Second order goals Selecting market targets Selecting media Selecting the sample Selection of salemen Selective channels Selective-demand

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Selective-demand advertising Self-selling Self-service store layout Selling agents Selling and distributing Selling process Sensitive commodities Sequencing marketing alternatives Sequential decision making Sequential information collection Service centers Service levels Service marketing Service salesmen Service selling Service shopping system Service supplies Service wholesaler Service policy Services Shopping centers Shopping goods Shopping news Short selling Silent saleman Significant differences Silentsaleman Simplification and standardization Simplified selling Simulation and sensitivity analysis Single-line policy Single-line store Size of market Size of order Skim-the-cream price Slow-selling merchandise Social and psychological needs Social class Social organization marketing Sources of market information

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Specialty selling Specialty stores Specific-feature Speculative buying Spot market Stable market Stages in the buying process Standard price Standard production itemprice determination Standard specifications Standard Transportation Commodity code (STCC) Staple Merchandise Star Supermarkets Starch advertisement readership service Stimulation of salesmen Stimulus variables Stimulus-response Stock turnover Stockout cost Storage Store audits Store loyalty Straight rebuy buying Strategic planning Stratifying the market Structural focus Style improvement Submarket Substitutability of product Suggestion selling Sunk costs Supermarket layout Supermarkets Supervision of salesmen Survey methods Survey of Buying Power Survey potential Survey results Surveys of buyer intentions Symbolic models Synchromarketing

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Table of ranking media Tactical product-line Target pricing Target return pricing Target-market Technical Salesman Technical selling Technological chang Telephone surveys Telephone-order retailing Telephone-order selling Terms of sale Territorial assignment of salemen Test market Test marketing Testing effectiveness Testing effectiveness of advertising Theory of cost behavior Tie-in sale Time-budgeting of purchases Time-series Total sales management program Total-merketing information system Trade advertising Trade channel Trade discounts Trade promotion Trade zone Transient brand concept Transient market condition Transit Advertising Transit Advertising Association Transit Mediam Transportation advertising Transportation Association of America Transporting Traveling display Traveling salesman Trial prices

Truth-in-packaging act Turbulence stage Type selectivity Types of channel flows Types of promotional communication Ulterior Motive Ultimate Consumer Undifferentiated marketing Unearned discount Uneven exchange Unfair competition Unfair practices acts Unfair sales acts Uniform commercial code Uniform Delivered Price Unique user Unit Load Unit Packing Unit Pricing Unit store Unit value Unit volume Unitary demand United States Trademark Association Unproductive consumption Unrestricted random sample Unsecured Credit Unselifish display Unsought goods Unstable market Unweighted data Upgrading customers Urbanization segmentation Urge line Use testing User User status Use-system Utility Utility functions Utility maximization Utility of goods

Value analysis Value control Value Marketing Value of a customer Value of information Value-added approach to marketing Value-pricing Variable costs Variable price policy Variable pricing Variety store Veblen effect Vending machines Vendor Vertical acquisitions Vertical channel system Vertical competition Vertical concurrence Vertical conflict Vertical cooperative advertising Vertical file index Vertical integration Vertical market Vertical marketing systems Vertical organization Vertical Saturation Vest pocket supermarket Visual aids Visual media in advertising Vocational Advertising Volume Discount Volume oriented pricing Voluntary chain stores Voluntary Wholesaler Wagon distributor Wagon Jobber Wagon retailer Wagon wholesaler Wait order Waiting lines Warehouse Warehouse receipt Warehousing

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Warranty of merchantability Waste circulation Water carriers Waterways Wave Scheduling Waybill Weak ordering Weak products Wear out Weber Model Weber organization model Weight and linear measurements Weighted Data Welfare economics Welfare ideal Wheel theory of institutional change Wheel-of-retailing hypothesis Wholesale Establishment Wholesale Market Centers Wholesale Merchants Wholesale Price Index wholesale trade Wholesalers Wholesale-Sponsored Voluntary Chain wholesaling Wholly owned subsidiaries Withdrawals Wool Products Labeling Act Word association tests Work permits Work-planning Wrapping Yard goods Yearly Order Youth market Zone Pricing

 "bow-wow" theory of language a posteriori probability a prior distribution a priori probability abnormal class abnormality abridged life table absentee landlord absentee ownership absentee voting absenteeism absolute deprivation absolute monarchy absolute state absolute surplus value absolutism abstract empiricism abstract labor accessibility accidental sampling accommodation accredition acculturation achievement motivation acquired character acquisitive impulse acquisitive society acting crowd acting crowd action action frame of reference action research action system action theory(parsons) actor adaptation adaptive upgrading addiction adjustment adolescence adolescence subculture adult socialization

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adulthood advanced capitalism advocacy affective action affective action affective neutrality affinity affirmative action affluent society age composition age distribution age domination age group agency agent agent of socialization aggregate aggregation of interests aggregation of preference aging aging index agrarian movement agrarian society agrarianism agricultural labor agricultural population agricultural revolution agricultural worker ahistorical bias aided recall alcoholic anonymity alcoholism alien population alienation allocation of sample size alpha error alter alternative hypothesis altruistic suicide anal phase analogical method analysis of covariance analysis of variance

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anova

analytical framework analytical marxism ancestor cult ancestor worship ancient mode of production ancova androcentric theory androgyny anecdotal evidence animal instinct animal worship animism annals school annuity annulment anomic division of labour anomic leisure anomic suicide anomie anonymity anonymous questionnaire anova antagonism antagonistic cooperation antecedent variable anthropocentric theory anthropocentrism anthropogenic association anthropogenic association anthropogenic association anthropogenic association anticipated consequence anticipatory socialization anti-depressants anti-dumping anti-intraception anti-militarism anti-natalist policy anti-psychologism anti-semitism scale anti-social behavior antitheism

giddin gs

anti-trust anti-war movement applied research apprentice system apprenticeship archival data archival research archival research area files area studies aristocracy arithmetic mean arranged marriage articulation artificial insemination artificial intelligence artificial selection aryanism ascetic protestantism asceticism ascribed role ascribed status ascription asiatic mode of production assembly line assimilation assimilation association asylum asymmetric measure of association atheism atomic theory atomism atomistic fallacy atomization attention span attitude change attitude scale attribute variable attribution attribution theory audience audience analysis

aura autarky authentication authoritarian personality authoritarian regime authoritative society authority autocorrelation autocracy automation autonomy autoregression availability sample average absolute deviation average deviation axial growth baby boom back stage behavior back- translation back-to-basics movement backward linkage backward selection model balance of migration balance of power balance sheet band wagon effect barbarism bare-foot doctor bargaining power bargaining range barrio barter barter economy base map baseline data battery bayes' theorem because motive because motive before-after experiment behavior behavior pattern behavioral science

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behaviorism belief belief system bell curve bell curve bell-shaped curve belonging beneficiary bernoulli's theorem best fitting line best linear unbiased estimator beta coefficient beta error between-group variance bias biased estimate bilingual education bimodal curve bimodal distribution binary opposition binomial curve binomial distribution binomial sampling distribution binomial theorem binomial variable biographical data biographical method biological altruism biological approach biological determinism biological environment biological evolutionism biological sex biological sociology bio-social environment bio-statistics birth cohort birth control birth control birth interval birth order birth order ratio birth rate

birth target bisexuality bivariate analysis bivariate regression black language black power blaming the victim blas blended family block model block modeling block sampling block(s) blue collar body body language bolshevism bonded labor boomerang effect borough(s) bound labor bounded rationality bourgeois bourgeois society bourgeoisie boycott bracketing brain drain brainwashing brand brand loyalty bride purchase broken family buisness cycle bullet theory bureaucracy bureaucratization busing bystander effect calling calvinism cannibalism canon

canonical factor analysis capital capital accumulation capital flow capital formation capital punishment capital-intensive industry capitalism capitalist capitalist agriculture capitalist economy world capitalist mode of production capitalist world-economy capture marriage career woman cargo cult carryover effect cartel cartogram case analysis case history case method case record case study case study method case work casewise deletion cash benefit cash crop caste caste system castration anxiety castration complex casual crowd casual crowd casual labor casual laborer casual worker categorical data categorical variable categorization

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causal analysis causal relationship causality ceiling effect celibacy cell frequency censored data censorship census census data census schedule census taker census tract center-periphery theory central business district central limit theorem central place theory central tendency centralization centralized bureaucracy ceremonialism ceremony certificate devaluation chain migration chain migration chair socialism change character charisma charismatic authority charismatic domination charismatic leader chastity chauvinism chebyshev's theorem chicago school child labor child labor child marriage child mortality rate child placing child protection child welfare

child-bearing age child-bearing group childhood socialization child-rearing pattern children born alive children born in wedlock children born out of wedlock children ever born children living child-woman ratio chiristian socialism chi-square chi-square distribution chi-square test chivalry christian socialism chronic unemployment chronological age church ci circle communication network circular migration circular systematic sampling circulation of elite citizen citizenship citizenship citizenship by birth citizenship by descent city city planning city state civic culture civic education civil culture civil disobedience civil marriage civil religion civil rights civil rights movement civil service civil society civil war

pareto

civilian labor force civilian population civilization clan class class analysis class antagonism class boundary class cohesion class community class conflict class consciousness class crystallization class culture class culture class differentiation class domination theory class for itself class formation class frequency class hatred class hierarchy class identification class identity class in itself class interests class interval class limit class midpoint class mobility class polarization class prejudice class society class solidarity class structure class struggle class struggle class width classical economics classical experimental design classical organization theory classical political economy classical social evolutionism

classification classification error classless society clich client climatic determinism clinical sociology clique clique analysis cloning closed shop closed society cluster cluster cluster cluster analysis cluster sampling clustering code code of ethics code of ethics codebook co-determination coding coding error coefficient of agreement coefficient of alienation coefficient of association coefficient of concentration coefficient of concordance coefficient of consistence coefficient of contingency coefficient of correlation coefficient of determination coefficient of dissimilarity coefficient of dissimilarity coefficient of divergence coefficient of equivalence coefficient of multiple correlation coefficient of non-determination coefficient of partial correlation coefficient of rank correlation coefficient of regression

(popper)

coefficient of reliability coefficient of reproducibility coefficient of scalability coefficient of skewness coefficient of variation coercion coercion coercive power cognitive dissonance cognitive rationality cognitive system cohabitation cohesion cohort collective action collective bargaining collective behavior collective conscience collective consciousness collective consciousness collective consciousness collective effervescence collective memory collective ownership collective representation collective representation collective sentiment collective unconscious collectivism collectivization colonial capitalism colonialism colonization color line colored race command economy commercial bourgeoisie commercial revolution commercialization commodification commodity chain common law marriage common sense

gramsci

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durkheim

commune communication communicative action communicative competence communicative rationality communism community community college community development community disorganization community medicine community organization community power community study commuter zone companionate love companionship family company town comparable worth comparative historical method comparative historical sociology comparative method comparative mortality index comparative sociology comparative sociology comparative study comparison level competition complementary event complementary function complementary theory complete life table complete randomized design completed family size completed fertility rate complex complex organization complexity component society composite family composite hypothesis composite index composite variable

comprador government comprehensive care comprehensive university compromise compulsory attendance compulsory education compulsory education compulsory insurance compulsory membership computer assisted telephone interview concentration camp concentric zone theory concept conception conceptualization concubinage concurrent validity conditional probability conditioning conditioning theory confidence interval confidence level configuration conflict conflict conflict resolution conflict theory conformity confucian ethic confucianism congenital disability conglomerate conjugal family conjugal relation connotation consanguine family consanguine marriage conscience collectif conscience collective consciousness of kind consensus consensus mobilization conservation district

cati

durkheim

conservatism conservative ideology consistency consociational democracy conspicuous consumption constant constitutional monarchies consumer behavior consumer culture consumer movement consumer society consumerism consumption goods contagion theory content analysis contest mobility contextual effect contingency table contingency theory continuous variable contract labor contract rent contract theory of society contradictory class location control group control variable conurbation convenience sample convention conventional crowd conventional morality level conventionalism conventionalization convergence convergence theory conversion conversion convert cooperative association cooperative medical service cooperative movement cooperative society cooptation

core curriculum core zone corporal punishment corporate actor corporate crime corporation corporation corporatism correctional education correlation correlation coefficient correspondence analysis correspondence theory corruption cosmopolitanism cost-benefit analysis co-twin study counter ideology counter movement counter- revolution counter- revolutionary counter-culture counter-culture counter-elite counter-revolution counter-selection country of origin country of refuge coup d'tat courtly love courtship cousin marriage covariance covert participant observation craft union craze creationism creative class creative industries creative destruction credentialism credit economy crescive institution

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criminal career criminal subculture criminal type criminalization criminology critical hermeneutics critical mass critical theory cross tabulation cross-cultural comparison cross-cultural diffusion cross-fertilization of culture cross-national marriage cross-sectional analysis cross-sectional data crowd crowd behavior crude birth rate crude death rate crude divorce rate crude marriage rate crude mortality rate cult cult film cult film cult of the individual cultural anthropology cultural bias cultural borrowing cultural capital cultural circle cultural complex cultural configuration cultural deprivation cultural determinism cultural dope cultural goods cultural immediacy cultural imperialism cultural indicator cultural industries cultural intermediaries cultural lag

cultural materialism cultural nationalism cultural parallelism cultural pattern cultural pluralism cultural production cultural relativism cultural reproduction cultural system cultural trait culture culture culture industry culture of poverty culture pattern culture shock culture-bound syndrome cumulative distribution cumulative percentage cyber community cybernetic system cycle of poverty daughter preference death instinct death rate de-bureaucratization decentralization decoding de-colonization de-criminalization de-culturation de-defferentiation deductive method deep structure defence mechanism defense mechanism definition of situation definition of situation degradation ceremony degree of freedom de-humanization de-individualization de-institutionalization

thomas

deism deity deliberative democracy de-mobilization democracy democratic association democratization democratization demogenic association demogenic association demographic analysis demographic change demographic characteristics demographic composition demographic evolutionism demographic indicator demographic revolution demographic statistics demographic structure demographic transition demography de-mystification de-mythologization denationalization denomination denotation density of population dependency ratio dependent development dependent population dependent variable de-politicization depressed class deprivation de-professionalization de-regulation derivation derivation (pareto) derivative (pareto) de-schooling descriptive research descriptive sociology descriptive statistics

pareto pareto

spencer

descriptive statistics descriptive study desegregation de-segregation de-skilling de-socialization despotism de-stratification determinism developed countries developing countries developmentalism deviance deviation deviation from mean df diachrony dialectic method dialectical materialism dialectics dictatorship dictatorship of the proletariat differential association theory differential birth rate differentiation difficulty index diffused religion diffuseness-specificity(parsons) diffusion of culture diffusionism directive agent disaster syndrome discipline discipline discrimination discrimination index disenchantment disguised unemployment disposable income distribution distributive justice divergence theory diversity

ward

divided self divine right division of labor division of labor divorce divorce rate documentary research dogmatism domain assumption domestic industry domestic institution domestic violence domestication dominance hierarchy dominant culture dominant group dominant ideology domination double bind situation double blind method double-tailed test downward social mobility dramaturgy drive drop-out rate drug abuse dual economy dual labor market dual society dual system dual-career family dualism dummy variable duncan's multiple range test dyad dynamic agent dynamic equilibrium dynamic population dysfunction earnings-related contribution ecological fallacy ecological organization

spencer

ward

ecological process ecological segregation ecological structure ecological system ecological triangle ecological unit economic cycle economic dependence economic interpretation of history economic man model economic nationalism economic sociology economic union economically active population economically inactive population economy world ecosphere ecosystem education system educational achievement educational aspiration educational assessment educational attainment educational determinism educational expansion educational institution educational investment educational opportunity educational priority area educational reform educational resource educational sociology educational system egalitarian family egalitarianism ego ego-alter theory egocentricity egocentrism ego-ideal egoism egoistic suicide

- braudel

eigenvalue eigenvector ekistics elaborated code elasticity of employment elective affinity electra complex elite elite theory emancipatory interest embourgeoisiement emergent norm emergent property emigrant emigration emigration rate emotional labor emotional mobilization empathy empirical knowledge empirical research empirical sociology empiricism employer class employment employment office empty-nest period enacted institution enclave economy encoding encounter encounter group encounter movement enculturation endogamy endogenous change endogenous variable enlightenment entitlement entrepreneurship entropy environmental sociology environmentalism

episode analysis epistemological break epistemological rupture equal pay equal pay for equal work equalitarianism equality equilibrium equilibrium theory ergonomics eros error rate error structure error sum of squares error term esprit de corps essentialism estimate estimated error estimated population estimator estrangement et cetera assumption ethic of conviction ethic of responsibility ethnic cleavage ethnic enclave ethnic group ethnic group ethnic group ethnic identity ethnic identity ethnic identity ethnic segregation ethnic stratification ethnicity ethnicity ethnicity ethnocentrism ethnogenic association ethnogenic association ethnography ethnomethodology

giddings

ethos etiquette eudemics (dealey) eugenics eugenics eurocentrism euthanasia evaluation research evaluation research evaluation research evaluation research event event history analysis evolution evolution theory evolution theory evolutionary theory ex post facto experiment exchange relation exchange theory exchange value exogamy exogenous change exogenous variable expansion expectation of life experiment group experimental group experimental method explanatory research exploitation exploitation class exploratory research export-oriented industrialization expressive crowd expressive crowd expressive identity expressive role ex-role behavior extended case method extended family external attribution external attribution

external benefit external diseconomy external economy extremism f distribution f ratio f test fabian socialism fabianism face validity face work face-to-face group faction factional struggle factor analysis factor endowment factor loading factor matrix factorial ecology factory system fair trade fallacy of misplaced concreteness false consciousness falsifiability falsification falsification familism family family allowance family history family life cycle family of orientation family of procreation family resemblance family structure family tie family violence fanaticism fandom fandom fandom fascism fashion

f f f []

fashion cycle fatalism fatalistic suicide fatigue effect female-headed family femininity feminism feminization fertility fertility control fertility distribution fertility history fertility policy fertility rate fertilization age fetish fetishism feudal mode of production feudal society feudal system feudal-absolutist state feudalism feudalism fiduciary institution field field experiment field method field observation field study field work filter question financial capitalism fixed effect fixed effect model flneur flat organization flexible specialization floater floating population floor effect floor effect flows fluid

focus group focused interview folk culture folk religion folk society folk-urban typology folkway folkways follow-up study foot-in-the-door effect forced division of labour forced migration formal demography formal group formal organization formal rationality formal sociology formal sociology forward selection model frame analysis frame of reference frankfurt school free will free-floating intellectual frequency distribution front stage behavior full employment fun morality function functional alternative functional equivalent functional explanation functional requisite functionalism fundamental attribution error fundamentalism fusion of horizons gallup poll game stage game theory garden city gate-keeper

gadame r

gemeinschaft gender gender identity gender inequality gender role gene flow gene mutation gene pool genealogy genealogy genealogy chart general birth rate general conception of ideology general death rate general divorce rate general strike general symmetry requirement general system theory general will generalizability generalization generalized belief generalized belief generalized exchange generalized other generation generational mobility generative grammar genetic epistemology genetic structuralism genital phase genius theory genocide gentrification gentry geographical community geographical determinism geopolitics gerontocracy gerontology gesellschaft gestalt gestational age

gesture gesture language ghetto gift exchange glacial time glass ceiling glm global society global village globalism globalization glocalization gnpism goal attainment goal displacement goodness of fit gossip governance governing class governmentality grand theory grand tradition grassroots organization gratification deprivation great depression great man theory great man theory of history green belt green revolution gross reproductive rate grounded theory group behavior group consciousness group contact group control group distance group dynamics group hostility group influence group interest group marriage group medical practice group mind

gnpgnp

group mind group priority group sampling group situation group solidarity group thinking guest worker guided democracy guided interview guild guild socialism guild; gild guttman scale habitus half-way house halo effect hawthorne effect hawthorne experiment hazard rate head hunting head start program heathenism hedonism hegemony herd instinct hermeneutical circle hermeneutics hero worship heterarchy heterodox heterodox heterodoxy heterogamy heterogeneity heterogeneity of variance heterogeneous cluster heterogeneous group heterophily heteroscedasticity heterosexuality hexagonal hierarchy of regions hidden curriculum hidden unemployment

hierarchical linear model hierarchical regression analysis hierarchy hierarchy of sciences hierarchy of the sciences high culture high-cost altruism hinduism hippie movement histogram historical approach historical demography historical determinism historical materialism historical method historical necessity historical sociology historicality historicism historization hlm hobo holism home worker homeostasis homo sociologicus homogamy homogeneity homogeneity of variance homogeneous group homology homophily homoscedasticity homosexuality honor system horde horizontal group horizontal mobility horizontal occupational mobility horizontal social mobility horticultural society hot media house of correction

household housing policy housing problem human capital human ecology human ecology human ecology human geography human relations area files human relations theory human resource human society humanism humanitarian humanitarianism humanity hunger strike hunger strike hunting and gathering society hunting people hunting stage husband purchase hybrid hybridity hypergamy hypnotic suggestion hypogamy hypothesis testing i id ideal speech situation ideal type idealism idealistic interpretation of history ideational culture ideational culture ideational system identifiability identification identification card identity identity crisis

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sorokin

ideographic science ideological dominance ideological interpretation of history ideological state apparatus ideology idolatry idols of the cave idols of the market-place idols of the theater idols of the tribe illegitimacy illegitimate child illiteracy illiteracy rate illocutionary act imitation immaterial labor immaterial labor immigrant immigration immigration policy immigration rate imperial capitalism imperialism impersonal relation impersonal relationship import substitution import-substituted industrialization import-substitution industrialization impression management impulsive social action incentive structure incest incest taboo incidence rate inclusion income distribution income maintainance income maintenance income redistribution incorporation independent sample independent variable

in-depth interview in-depth interview index of aging index of dissimilarity indexical expression indigenous bourgeoisie indigenous culture indigenous medicine indigenous technological capacity indirect effect individual individual modernity individualism individuality individualization individuation induced modernization inductive method industrial accident industrial action industrial action industrial action industrial bureaucracy industrial capitalism industrial cluster industrial conflict industrial democracy industrial disease industrial dispute industrial injury industrial man industrial order industrial organization industrial policy industrial relations industrial reserve army industrial revolution industrial safety industrial society industrial sociology industrial union

industrial unionism industrialism industrialization industry inequality inertia infant industry infant mortality rate infant mortality rate infant mortality rate infanticide infanticide inferential statistics infertility influence informal economy informal group informal organization informal sector informal social control informant information explosion information flow information overload information processing information society information theory information underload informed consent infrastructure in-group in-group in-group inheritance initial action initial ceremony injustice in-marriage inmate inner city inner time inner-directedness inner-directedness

inner-worldly asceticism in-order-to motive in-role behavior insanity instinct instinct of workmanship institution institutional care institutional deviance institutional discrimination institutional environment institutional racism institutional religion institutionalization instrumental rationality instrumental role instrumental variable integration intellectual intellectual class intellectualism intelligentsia interaction interaction effect interaction process analysis intercept interdependence interdependent variable interest interest group interests interests inter-generation mobility interlocking directorate intermarriage intermediate class intermediate variable intermediate variable intermixture of races internal attribution internal colonialism internal labor market internalization

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international migration international organization international stratification internationalism inter-observer reliability inter-observer reliability interpenetration interpersonal attraction interpersonal comparison interpretation interpretative sociology interpreter interracial fusion interspersed question intersubjectivity interval estimate interval estimation interval scale intervening variable intervention interview interview effect interview method interviewer bias interviewer effect intimacy intimacy intra-class correlation coefficient intra-generational mobility intra-observer reliability intrinsic birth rate intrinsic death rate invasion invisible religion involuntary group involuntary segregation involuntary sterility involuntary unemployment iron law of oligarchy irreversibility item analysis iteration j-curve theory

jealousy job people mismatch joint family joint venture joking relationship judgemental sampling junior right jurisdiction justice juvenile court juvenile delinquency juvenile delinquency kap survey kibbutzim kinship kinship group kinship system knowledge at hand knowledge gap knowledge-constitutive interests labeling theory labor labor labor aristocracy labor class labor force labor force participation rate labor force population labor insurance labor intensive industry labor market labor market labor market labor movement labor organization labor process labor theory of value labor time labor turn-over labor turn-over labor union labor union labor union

laboring class laissez-faire laissez-faire doctrine land tenure large sample larithmics late development advantage latecomer latency latent function latent variable latifundia law of diminishing returns law of diminishing returns law of three stages leadership leading question learned helplessness least-squares estimate least-squares estimator legal-rational authority legitimacy legitimate power legitimation crisis leisure leisure class leisure class leisure industry leninism leninist party lesbian level of aspiration level of significance level of tolerance levels of analysis lgbt movement liberalism liberation theology libido life chance life course life cycle life cycle theory

lgbt

fairchild

life event life expectancy life expectancy at birth life expectation life history life history life span life style life table life table life world likelihood ratio likelihood ratio test likert scale line and staff line of command linear regression linguistic approach linguistic minority linguistic relativity linguistic relativity hypothesis linguistic turn liquidity listwise deletion

literacy
literacy rate literature review little tradition livable wage live birth lived experience living wage local community local politics localism localization lockout logical action logical positivism logistic curve logistic curve loglinear analysis lonely crowd

pearl

longevity longitudinal analysis looking-glass self looking-glass self lucutionary act lumpenproletariat lynching machine politics macrosociology magic magical faith magician main effect maintenance mores majority rule male chauvinism malpractice malthusian theory malthusianism mana

managerial class
managerial revolution mancova mandate of heaven mania manifest function man-land ratio manor manorial system manova manova manual labor manual laborer maoism margin of error marginal man marital disintegration marital fertility rate marital mobility market economy market failure market socialism market society

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cooley

sumner

market system marriage by capture marriage by exchange marriage by purchase marriage gradient marriage market marriage rate marxism marxist sociology masculinity masculinity masochism mass mass communication mass consumption

mass consumption mass culture mass democracy mass hysteria mass leisure mass media mass movement mass persuasion mass production mass society masses mate selection material culture material culture material labor materialism materialist conception of history materialistic interpretation of history maternal age maternal behavior maternal deprivation maternal imperialism maternal instinct maternal mortality rate maternal right maternal right maternal right maternity

maternity pension maternity pension mathematical sociology mating gradient matriarchal family matriarchal theory matriarchate matriarchy matriarchy matricentric family matrifocal family matrilineal matrilocal matrimonial institution maximum likelihood estimate maximum likelihood method me mean mean square error mean square within meaning means of production means test measurement measurement error measurement scale mechanical solidarity mechanism media culture media event media imperialism median mediation medicaid medicalization medicalization of deviance medicare megacity megalopolis melting pot membership group memory menshevism

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mental age mental disease mental health mental hygiene mental labor mental life mentality mercantilism merchant capitalism meritocracy message messianic movement meta-analysis metaphor metaphysical stage method of agreement method of concomitant variation method of difference methodological collectivism methodological cosmopolitanism methodological holism methodological individualism methodological nationalism methodological nominalism methodological relationalism methodology metonymy metronymic family metronymic relationship metronymic tribe metronymy metropolis micro-politics microsociology middle class middle range theory midlife crisis mid-life crisis mid-year population migrant worker migration migration transition militant society

militarism military sociology military-industrial complex millenarianism millennial movement mind mind-body dualism minimum wage law minorities minority culture mir misdemeanor missing data mob mob mind mobilities mobility mobilization for action mobilization network modal personality mode mode of information mode of production modern society modernism modernity modernization mohammedanism monarchy money money economy monogamous family monogamy monopoly capitalism monotheism monte carlo method moral community moral density moral economy

morbidity rate mores mores mormonism morphogenesis mortality mortality rate mosaic mother tongue motherhood endowment mothers' pension motility motivation theory multicollinearity multiculturalism multi-dimensional concept multi-level analysis multi-linear evolution multilinear evolutionism multi-national corporations multiple regression analysis multivariate analysis multivariate analysis of covariance multivariate analysis of variance mutation mutual exclusiveness mysticism myth mythology narcissism nation national capitalism national character national identity national self-determination national socialism nationalism nationality nationalization nation-state native natural attitude natural history

sumner

natural increase natural increase rate natural law natural right natural selection naturalization naturalization nature worship nature-nurture debate nazism necessary labor time necromancy neighborhood neighborhood community neighbourhood neoclassical economics neo-colonialism neo-darwinism neoevolutionism neo-evolutionism neo-familism neo-freudianism neo-imperialism neo-kantianism neo-malthusianism neo-marxism neonatal mortality rate neo-positivism nepotism network network analysis network structure new class new deal new left new middle class new social movement new urbainsm new urban sociology new working class newly industrializing countries newly industrializing economies niche

nihilism noise nomad nomadism nominal scale nominal variable nominalism nomothetic explanation nomothetic science non-linear relationship non-logical action non-logical action nonparametric method non-probability sampling nonprofit organization non-profit organization non-resistance non-response non-verbal communication non-violent resistance nordicism norm norm of reciprocity normal distribution normal science normalization

normative knowledge nouveau riche nuclear family null hypothesis numerical measurement numerical scale nuptial birth rate nuptiality rate obedience object
objectification objective culture

(pareto) (kuhn)

objectivity
objectivization

observation

observation error
observation method observational method

observed value observer error observer reliability

occidentalism occupation

occupational aspiration occupational class occupational culture occupational disease

occupational group occupational mobility occupational prestige occupational prestige ranking occupational prestige scale oedipus complex

old middle class

oligarchy oligopoly ols

one-child policy one-dimensional man one-parent family one-party dominant one-party system one-person household one-tailed test one-way analysis of variance on-job training
ontological security

ontology
open shop open society

(popper)

open society
open-ended question operational definition operationalization opinion leader

opinion poll opportunism opportunity structure oppression optimal population optimum population oral phase oral tradition ordering-and-forbidding method ordinal scale ordinal variable ordinary language ordinary least-squares method organic analogy organic intellectual organic solidarity organic theory of society organization organization design organization man organization theory organizational centralization organizational commitment organizational complexity organizational control organizational culture organizational environment organizational ethics organizational formalization organizational goal organizational socialization organizational stratification organized complexity organized crime oriental despotism orientalism originality orthodox other-directedness other-directedness others-group other-worldly orientation out-group

ols

thomas

sumner sumner

out-group out-marriage out-migration outsider outsourcing overdetermination over-determination overdevelopment over-development over-education overidentification over-identification overpopulation overpopulation over-population overproduction overproduction over-production oversocialization over-socialization overurbanization overurbanization over-urbanization pacifist movement paganism pain-pleasure principle pair marriage pantheism parenthood parole system participant observation participation particularism paternal age paternal family paternal right paternal right paternity patriarchal theory patriarchate patriarchy

westerma rck

patrilineal patrimony patriotism patronymic family patronymic relationship patronymic tribe patronymy peasant movement peasantry penology peonage labor peonage labor performativity perlocutionary act physical environment physico-social environment physiocracy pluralism pluralistic behavior plurality pattern political economy political sociology polyandry polygamy polygenesis polygyny polytheism poor law poor relief population population policy positive check positive eugenics positivism postconvetional morality level pr practice effect pragmatism pre precipitating factors preconventional morality level predeterminism

giddings von wiese-

prejudice prestige prevalence rate primary contact primary group primitive community primitive mentality primitive religion primitive society primogeniture principal component analysis prisoner's dilemma private property privatization probational system profession professional class professional ethnics professional ethnics professional ethnics professionalization profit system profit-sharing system progress project proletariat promiscuity propaganda prostitution psychological distance psychopathic personality puberty ceremony

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public

public enterprise public goods public opinion public ownership public property public utilities punishment

pure sociology purposive behavior purposive sampling questionnaire questionnaire method race race attitude race conflict race difference race hygiene race prejudice race suicide racial determinism random check random sampling rapport rating scale rationality rationalization realism recidivism reciprocity redundancy reform reformation reformatory reformism regionalism regression rejection region relational methodology relational methods relational sociology relativism reliance on available subjects religion remarriage rent reorganization repression republic research ethics research ethics

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residue resource mobilization revisionism revolution riot ritual rivalry romantic love ruling class rumor rumour rural community rural sociology rural urbanization sabotage sadomasochism salad bowl sampling by convenience sanction saturation point savagery scepticism scientific objects scientific socialism sd se second international secondary contact secondary group secret association secret society sect sectarianism secular society secularization segregation self-consciousness self-determination self-interest self-perpetuation self-preservation self-realization sem

rumor

pareto

sensate culture sentiment separation serf serfdom sex ratio sexuality simulation slack slave emancipation slavery slum sociability social action social adaptation social anthropology social behavior social bond social change social class social cleavage social cohesion social conditioning social constraint social contagion social contract social contract theory social control social darwinism social darwinism social degeneration social democracy social development social differentiation social disease social disintegration social disorganization social distance social dynamics social engineering social evolution social evolutionism social exclusion

sorokin

durkheim

social fact social force social group social immobility social inclusion social increase rate social inequality social instinct social institution social insurance social integration social interaction social justice social law social mechanism social mobility social morphology social movement social norm social order social organism social organization social origin social participation social pathology social pattern social phenomenology social phenomenology social phenomenon social philosophy social physiology social planning social problem social process social progress social psychology social reality social reform social regulation social relation social relation social relationship social relationship

durkheim

social reorganization social research social resistance social revolution social role social science social security social situation social solidarity social statics social statistics social status social stratification social stratum social stratum social structure social survey social system social technique social theory social trend social type social unrest social welfare social work socialism socialist economic system socialist league sociality socialization socialization agency socialization process societal society socio-cultural evolutionism sociography sociological theory sociologism sociology sociology of culture sociology of culture sociology of education

sumner keller

toennies

sociology of law sociometry solidarism solidarity sovereignty specialization speech act sponsored mobility standard of living standardization standardized birth rate standardized death rate state state capitalism state socialism static sociology statistical method status attainment stereotype sterility stranger stratified sampling strike structural conduciveness structural duality structural strain structuralist marxism structuration struggle struggle for existence subordination subsistance wage suicide rate supernatural superstition suppression surplus value surplus value sweat shop sweat shop symbiosis symbol symbolic goods

lippmann simmel

giddens

sympathetic radiation sympathetic radiation sympathetic strike sympathy syndicalism synergy synergy taboo; tabu technocracy teleology telesis telesis terrorism the material self the pure ego the social self the spiritual self the subconscious the unconscious theism theoretical sociology theory of evolution theory of social contract they-group third international time of average social labor totalitarianism totem totemism town trade union tradition-directedness transnational study trial marriage tribalism tribe underpopulation unemployment unemployment insurance unilinear evolutionism union density

sympathet ic radiation hayes

synergy ward

telesis ward

union shop unit society universalism urban bias urban community urban sociology urbanism urbanization utilitarianism utopia utopian socialism vacancy chain verstehen vertical group vertical mobility village village community virtual community vital statistics voluntary association wage wage earner wage system want we-group weighted least-squares method white slavery witchcraft woman suffrage woman suffrage women's movement women's rights workhouse working class work-unit yellow journalism yellow trade union youth movement zeitgeist zoogenic association

sumner

giddings

anova

w. benjamin

schutz

pareto

gramsci

(durkheim)

(durkheim)

durkheim

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A A Abbe-Helmert (105 ABC standard (MIL-STD-105D) D) abnormal curve abnormality abridged life table abrupt distribution absolute continuity absolute deviation absolute dispersion absolute efficiency absolute efficiency of estimator absolute error absolute frequency absolute measure absolute moment absolute normal score test absolute threshold absolute variation absolutely unbiased estimator absorbing barrier absorbing state absorption coefficient absorption distributions absorption law accelerated factor accelerated life test accelerated stochastic approximation accelerated test acceleration by powering acceptable process level acceptable quality acceptable quality level (AQL) acceptable reliability level (ARL) acceptance acceptance boundary acceptance coefficient acceptance control chart A-optimal design A-optimal discrete design -error -resolvability Abbe-Helmert criterion

acceptance control limit acceptance criterion acceptance error acceptance inspection acceptance limit acceptance line acceptance number acceptance region acceptance sampling acceptance sampling by attributes acceptance sampling by variables acceptance sampling plan acceptance sampling scheme acceptance testing acceptance value acceptance zone access time accessibility accessible boundary point accessible point accident statistics accidental error accidental fluctuation accidental movement accidental variation accounts of national income accumulated deviation accumulated frequency accumulated process accuracy accuracy of estimation acquisition cost action action space active standby actual frequency actual number actual value actuary adaptability adaptive control

 M R ()( additive (random walk) process ) additive function additive model additive operation additive property additive theorem additive two-way lay-out additivity additivity of means additivity test adherent probabilities adjoint matrix adjusted average adjusted coefficient of determination adjusted mean adjusted value adjustment factor adjustment of chain relatives administrative time admissibility admissibility of Bayes estimator admissible decision function admissible decision rule admissible design admissible estimator admissible hypothesis admissible number admissible region admissible strategy admissible test adaptive estimation adaptive estimator adaptive inference adaptive M-estimator adaptive optimization adaptive quality control adaptive R-estimator adaptive value adaptively trimmed mean addition of life length addition rule of probability

adopted value affine -resolvability affinity age composition age dependent birth and death process age distribution age group age-dependent birth and death process age-dependent branching process age-sex specific death rate age-specific death rate age-specific fertility rate aged-child ratio aggregate index number aggregate market value aggregate par value aggregate-value method of weighting aggregation aggregative index aggregative model aging index aging process coefficient of agreement agricultural damage statistics agricultural labor productivity index agricultural land productivity index agricultural prices at farm gate agricultural production indices agricultural;forestry and fishery workers;animal producers;hunters and trappers agriculture census agriculture population agriculture production statistics agriculture;forestry;fishing;livest ock censuses aimed precision Aitken estimator Ajne's An test aleatory variable algorithm alias

Aitken AjneAn

aliased frequencies alienation alienation coefficient alignment chart all possible regression allocation allocation of a sample allocation of reliability allokurtic allokurtic curre allowable defects almost admissible decision function almost certain convergence almost certainly almost equivariance almost everywhere almost everywhere convergence almost sure convergence almost surely Alter periodiagram alternating renewal process alternative hypothesis among class variation amount of information amount of inspection amplitude amplitude ratio amusement index amusement statistics analogue computer analogy analysis chart analysis of attribute data analysis of correlation analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) analysis of covariance model analysis of covariance table analysis of dispersion analysis of means analysis of regression analysis of tolerance analysis of uncertainty analysis of variability

(Alter)

analysis of variance model analysis of variance (ANOVA) analysis of variance table analytic regression analytic survey analytic trend analytical error analytical table ancillarity ancillarity likelihood ancillary estimator ancillary information ancillary statistic Anderson-Darling statistic Anderson's classification statistic Andrews' Fourier-type plot angular transformation angular variables anisotropic distribution annual decrement annual increment annual rate of total increase annual receipts arid outlays anomic Anosov's theorem Ansari-Bradley dispersion test antimode anti-rank antiseries antithetic transforms antithetic variates antitonic regression function aperiodic state applied statistics appraisal cost appraisal of quality appraisal system approximate error approximate F-distribution approximate normality approximate theory of experimental designs approximate variance

Anderson-Darling Anderson AndrewsFourier Anosov Ansari-Bradley FF

approximation approximation error approximation theory aquaculture statistics arbitrariness arbitrary average arbitrary mean arbitrary origin arbitrary scale arc sine distribution arc sine transformation area bar chart area chart area comparability factor area diagram area graph area sample area sampling Arfwedson distribution arithmetic average arithmetic cross arithmetic graph arithmetic line chart arithmetic mean arithmetic probability paper arithmetic scale Armitage's restricted procedure Arnold distribution array array distribution arrival distribution artificial intelligence (AI) artificial variable ascending factor ascending order ascertainment error assay assembly inspection assessed reliability assessed value assignable cause assignable variation assignment model

ArfwedsonArfwedson Armitage ArnoldArnold

assignment problem associable design associate class associated binary random variables associated components associated dependent variable associated factor sets associated in time associated random variables associated variate associates association association analysis association coefficient association of attributes association scheme association table assumed average assumed mean assumed median assumed origin assumption assurance quality asterisk for significance astronomical statistics asymmetrical distribution asymmetrical factorial design asymmetrical test asymmetrically trimmed mean asymmetry asymptote asymptotic Bayes procedure asymptotic bias asymptotic distribution asymptotic distribution of likelihood ratio asymptotic distribution of maximum likelihood estimator asymptotic efficiency asymptotic efficiency of Bayes estimators asymptotic expansion asymptotic expansion of moments

asymptotic inference asymptotic mean asymptotic minimax property asymptotic normality asymptotic normality of order statistics asymptotic optimality of maximum likelihood estimator asymptotic power asymptotic power of NeymanPearson (N-P)test asymptotic power of uniformly most powerful test asymptotic relative efficiency asymptotic standard error asymptotic theory asymptotic variance asymptotically efficient estimator asymptotically locally optimal design asymptotically most powerful test asymptotically shortest unbiased confidence interval asymptotically stationary asymptotically subminimax asymptotically unbiased estimator asymptotically unbiased most powerful test asymptotically weakly ancillary at constant prices at current prices at factor cost at market prices attack rate attenuation attenuation correlation method index of attraction attribute attribute classification attribute data attribute inspection attribute measurement attribute sampling attribute statistics attribute testing

attribute value audit inspection auto spectrum auto-catalytic curve autocorrelated population autocorrelation autocorrelation coefficient autocorrelation function autocovariance autocovariance function autocovariance generating function interaction automatic detection(AID) automatic switch-over redundancy autonomous equation autoregression autoregressive integrated moving average model (ARIMA model) autoregressive model (AR model) autoregressive moving average model (ARMA model) autoregressive operator autoregressive process autoregressive process of order P autoregressive scheme autoregressive series autoregressive transformation auxiliary information auxiliary moment auxiliary statistic availability available characteristic average average amount of inspection average and range chart average annual daily traffic average article run length average availability average correction for grouping average critical value method average deviation average deviation about the mean average divergence average error

(A RIMA) (AR) (ARMA ) P

average extra defectives limit average inaccuracy average intercorrelation average intracorrelation average linkage average number of defects average number of defects chart average of relatives average outgoing level average outgoing quality (AOQ) average outgoing quality curve average outgoing quality level average outgoing quality limit (AOQL) average propensity to consume average propensity to save average quality level average quality level line average quality line average quality protection average range average run length average sample number (ASN) average sample number curve average sample number function average sample run length average sample size (ASS) average sample size curve average sampling average slope average total inspection (ATI) average total inspection curve average value average years for formal education avoidable cause avoidable quality cost axial distribution axial vector axioms of probability axis of abscissa axis of ordinate axonometric chart axonometry

-error Bachelier process backward difference backward difference operator backward elimination procedure backward equations backward linkage backward process backward shift operator bad lot Bagai's Y statistic Bahadur efficiency balance chart balance frequency balance of trade balanced complete type balanced confounding balanced confounding design balanced design balanced difference balanced error balanced experiment balanced factorial ex-perimental design balanced incomplete block design (BIBD) balanced incomplete type balanced lattice design balanced model balanced sample balanced sequence ball bearing failure ballot theory band chart band curve chart bar chart bar diagram Bartholomew's problem Bartlett and Diananda base period base reversal test base weight base-period weight index

Bachelier BagaiY Bahadur Bartholomew BartlettDiananda

basic cell basic dimension basic failure rate basic feasible solution basic non-feasible solution basic solution basic variable Basu's theorem batch (lot) batch process batch size batch variation Bates-Neyman model bathtub curve bathtub failure curve bathtub shape failure rate battery of tests Baule's equation Bayes approach Bayes decision rule Bayes estimation Bayes estimation of variance components Bayes estimator Bayes estimator of constant risk Bayes formula Bayes law Bayes methods Bayes postulate Bayes process Bayes randomization Bayes risk Bayes rule Bayes solution Bayes strategy Bayes theorem Bayesian analysis Bayesian confidence intervals Bayesian inference Bayesian interval estimation Bayesian model Bayesian probability point

Basu Bates-Neyman Baule

Beall-Rescia generalization of Neyman's distribution Bechhofer's indifference zone formulation Bechhofer's indifference zone method behavior equation behavioral decision function behavioristic parameter Behrens method Behrens-Fisher problem Behrens-Fisher test Bell-Doksum test Bellman-Harris process Bellman's principle of optimality bell-shaped curve bell-shaped distribution Beran's tests bereinigte Lebensbilany bereinigte Sterbeziffer Berge's inequality Berksonian line Bernoulli distribution Bernoulli law of large numbers Bernoulli numbers Bernoulli polynomial Bernoulli process Bernoulli series Bernoulli theorem Bernoulli trials Bernoulli variation Bernstein inequality Bernstein theorem Berry-Esseen theorem Berry's inequality Bessel function distribution Bessel's correction best absolutely unbiased estimator best asymptotically normal estimator (BAN estimator) best confidence interval best critical region best decision rule

NeymanBeall-Rescia Bechhofer Bechhofer Behrens Behrens-Fisher Behrens-Fisher Bell-Doksum Bellman-Harris Bellman Beran Berge Berkson Bernstein Bernstein Berry-Esseen Berry BesselBessel Bessel

best estimate best estimator best fit best fitting curve best fitting line best invariant decision rule best linear index best linear invariant estimate best linear invariant estimator best linear unbiased estimate best linear unbiased estimator (BLUE) best quasi-linear estimator best test best unbiased critical region best unbiased estimator beta coefficient beta distribution beta function beta moment beta prior distribution beta probability plot

() ()() () () () () ()() beta-binomial distribution ()() beta-gamma distribution ()() beta-prime distribution Pearson ()-Stacy()beta-Stacy distribution Stacy ()beta-Whittle distribution Whittle()better same order bias estimator between-class variance between-class variation between-column variance between-column variation between-group variance between-row variance between-row variation between-sample variance between-sample variation between-stratum variance Bhattacharyya bounds Bhattacharyya()

Bhattacharyya's distance bias bias estimator bias of index number biased biased deviation biased error biased estimator biased sample biased test Bickel-Hodges estimator Bienaym-Chebychev inequality bifactor model biharmonic function bilateral bilateral exponential distribution bilateral tolerance bilinear method bilinear time series bilinearity bimodal bimodal curve bimodal distribution bimodality binary experiment binary random variable binary sequence Bingham's distribution binomial binomial coefficient binomial curve binomial distribution binomial expansion binomial experiment binomial formula binomial index of dispersion binomial model binomial moment binomial population binomial probability distribution binomial probability paper binomial random variable binomial sampling

Bhattacharyya Bickel-Hodges Bienaym-Chebychev BinghamBingham

 K Birnbaum-Hall Birnbaum-RaymondZuckerman Birnbaum BirnbaumBirnbaum-Saunders distribution SaundersBirnbaumSaunders BirnbaumBirnbaum-Tingey dis-tribution TingeyBirnbaumTingey birth process birth rate birth ratio birth;death and immigration process birth-and-death process birth-place population biserial biserial correlation biserial ratio of correlation bispectral analysis bispectrum Bissinger distributions BissingerBissinger bit bivariate (beta) bivariate beta distributions (beta) bivariate binomial distribution bivariate Cauchy distribution bivariate central limit theorem bivariate distribution binomial series binomial theorem binomial trials binomial variation binomial waiting time distribution biometry ;biometrics biostatistics bipolar factor bipolykays Birnbaum-Hall test Birnbaum-Raymond-Zuckerman inequality Birnbaum's inequality

 FF () bivariate gamma distribution () bivariate hypergeometric distribution bivariate logarithmic distribution bivariate model bivariate moment generating function bivariate multinomial distribution bivariate nonparametric family bivariate normal distribution ParetoPare bivariate Pareto distribution to PascalPasc bivariate Pascal distribution al bivariate Poisson distribution bivariate sign test bivariate statistical series StudentStu bivariate 'Student' distribution dent bivariate truncation bivariate type II distribution bivariate uniform distribution (Weibull) bivariate Weibull distribution (Weibull) bivector multinomial distribution black market price survey Blackwell's theorem Blackwell Blakeman's criterion Blakeman Blakeman's test for linearity Blakeman block block design block diagram block factor bivariate exponential distribution(BVE) bivariate F-distribution

block replacement blocking blocking efficiency Blom's method Blum approximation Blum-Kiefer-Rosen-blatt independence test Blyth's lemma Bochner's theorem Bock's three component model body mass index (Quetelet's index) Boltzman's constant Bonferroni confidence interval Bonferroni inequality Boole-Bonferroni-Frchet inequality Boole's inequality bootstrap Bordardt's index Borel family Borel field Borel law of large numbers Borel set Borel-Cantelli lemma Borel-Tanner distribution Borges' approximation Bortkiewicz formula Bose distribution Bose-Einstein distribution Bose-Einstein statistics bound boundary boundary line bounded completeness bounded from below bounded in probability bounded loss function boundly complete sufficient statistics bowl drawing bowl experiment bowl test Bowley index

Blom Blum Blum-Kiefer-Rosenblatt Blyth Bochner Bock (Quetelet) Boltzman Bonferroni Bonferroni Boole-Bonferroni-Frchet Boole Bordardt Borel Borel Borel Borel Borel-Cantelli Borel-TannerBorelTanner Borges Bortkiewicz BoseBose Bose-EinsteinBoseEinstein Bose-Einstein Bowley

Bowley's coefficient of skewness Bowley's formula box-and-whisker plot Box-Jenkins model Box's test Bradford distribution Bradley-Terry model branch point branch-and-bound algorithm branching Markov process branching Poisson process branching process branching renewal process Brandt-Snedecor method Bravais correlation coefficient breakdown point break-even point (BEP) break-even-chart broadened base broken trend Brownian motion Brownian motion process Brown-Mood procedure Brown's method Bruceton method Brunk's test building damage statistics bulk sampling bunch-map analysis Burke's theorem Burkholder approximation burn-in Burr's distribution business barometer business cycle business cycle indicator business forecasting business indicator business statistics business survey busy period Buys-Ballot table calculation error

Bowley Bowley Box-Jenkins Box BradfordBradford Bradley-Terry Brandt-Snedecor Bravais Brown-Mood Brown Bruceton Brunk Burke Burkholder BurrBurr Buys-Ballot

calculus of finite differences calibration calibration designs callbacks Campbell's theorem Camp-Mediell inequality Camp-Paulson approximation canonical ensemble canonical canonical correlation canonical decomposition canonical form canonical form of exponential family canonical form of linear models canonical matrix canonical variate Cantelli's inequality Cantor-type canvasser method capability ratio capacity capacity constraint capital account capital expenditure capital formation capital gains capital goods capital intensity capital loss capital productivity index capital receipts capital reconciliation account capital stock capital transactions accounts capital transfer capitalization method Capon test caption capture-recapture sampling capture-release sampling cardioid distribution Carleman's criterion Carli's index

Campbell Camp-Mediell Camp-Paulson Cantelli Cantor Capon Carleman Carli

carrier variable carry-over effect design of experiment Cartesian sequential test cartogram cartographic analysis cascade process case method case reported case-control studies case-mortality rate catastrophic failure categorical data categorical distribution categorical measure categorical series category Cauchy criterion Cauchy distribution Cauchy distribution C(a;b) variance of median Cauchy distribution C(a;b) order statistics Cauchy distribution C(a;b) variance of trimmed means Cauchy method Cauchy-Schwarz inequality causal chain model causal distribution causal factor causal system causality causation distributed lags causation regression cause cause and effect cause and effect diagram cause variable cause-of-death statistics cause-specific death rate cause-specific death ratio cell cell boundary cell deviation

() Cauchy-Schwarz

cell frequency cell interval cell limit cell mean cell method cell mid-point cell value census distribution censored observations censored sample censored sampling censored test censoring census census day census year center of location center of range center of symmetry centering the data centile central composite design central confidence interval central difference central factorial moments central limit theorems central moments central ordinate central symmetry central tendency centralized inspection centralized statistical system centrally located systematic sampling centre of 'location centre of range centroid centroid method cepstrum certain event certainty certainty equivalence certification certified chart

Chacko-Shorack ChampernowneChampern Champernowne distributions owne chance chance cause chance constraint chance error chance factor chance failure chance fluctuation chance law chance mechanism chance of fixation chance sampling chance variable chance variation change control change in stocks change of basis change of scale change of variables change point model change-over design change-over trial channel degrees of freedom chaotic variation Chapman-Kolmogorov equation Chapman-Kolmogorov Chapman-Robbins inequality Chapman-Robbins Chapman-Robbins lower bound Chapman-Robbins Chapman-Smoluchowski Chapman-Smoluchowski equation characteristic characteristic curve characteristic determinant Chacko-Shorack test chain chain base chain binomial model chain block design chain index chain method chain model chain relative chain reliability chain sampling plan

characteristic diagram characteristic equation characteristic function characteristic life characteristic root characteristic value characteristic vector Charlier distribution chart chart field Chauvenets criterion Chebyshev's inequality check error check inspection check sampling Chernoff efficiency chessboard system of square yard plots chi distribution child-woman ratio chi-square chi-square (X2) approximation chi-square (X2) distribution chi-square test for goodness of fit chi-square test for independence chi-square test with fixed marginal totals chi-square tests chi-squared statistic chi-squared test choice indicator chronological chart chronological series Chung-Fuchs theorem chunk sampling cigarette card distribution circular chart circular design circular distribution circular formula circular function circular gap circular histogram

CharlierCharlier Chauvenets Chebyshev Chernoff Chung-Fuchs

circular lattice distribution circular location family circular mean deviation circular normal distribution circular order circular permutation circular probable error circular quartile deviation circular range circular ring circular serial correlation coefficient circular test circular triads civil justice statistics class class boundary (true class limit) class form class frequency class group class interval class limit class lower limit class mark class mean class mid-point class mid-value class number class symbol class upper limit class value class width classical inference classical model classical statistical mechanics classification classification chart classification frequency classification index classification of defects classification of industries classification of occupations classification principle classification problem

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classification process classification statistic classified counting classified frequency series clearance Cliff-Ord test climate statistics climatological statistics clinical trials clipped time series clisy clitic curve closed binomial sampling rule closed sequential scheme closed sequential t-tests closeness in estimation cluster cluster (point) process cluster analysis cluster point cluster sampling coaxality coaxial circles Cochran's criterion Cochran's Q-test Cochran's rule Cochran's test Cochran's theorem code coded unit coded value coding coding rule coefficient coefficient of agreement coefficient of alienation coefficient of association coefficient of assortative mating coefficient of colligation coefficient of concentration coefficient of concordance coefficient of consistence coefficient of contingency

Cliff-Ord t () Cochran CochranQ Cochran Cochran Cochran

coefficient of correlation coefficient of determination coefficient of disarray coefficient of dispersion coefficient of disturbancy coefficient of divergence coefficient of elasticity coefficient of excess coefficient of heredity coefficient of individuality coefficient of interclass correlation coefficient of kurtosis coefficient of likeness coefficient of multiple correlation of multiple coefficient regression coefficient of net correlation coefficient of net regression coefficient of nondetermination coefficient of partial correlation coefficient of population concentration coefficient of price reaction coefficient of pth order coefficient of quantity reaction coefficient of racial likeness coefficient of rank correlation coefficient of regression coefficient of reliability coefficient of risk coefficient of selection coefficient of skewness coefficient of total determination coefficient of variance coefficient of variation (CV) cofactor co-family household cofunction cograduation Gini's index of cograduation coherency coherent structure coherent system cohort analysis

p Gini

coincidence index cold standby cold standby system collapsed strata collapsed stratum method collective marks;method of collective quality collective schedule colligation collinear Columbia sampling table column column head column sum of squares column total column value column vector combination combination of observations combination of tests combination with repetitions combinatorial analysis combinatorial arrangement combinatorial model combinatorial power mean combinatorial test combined experiment combined failure commensurability commensurable measure commerce commercial census commercial statistics commodity-flow analysis commodity-service method commom mean common factor common factor space common factor variance common test of normal distribution common variance common-cause model common-factor variance

communality communication class communications statistics community economic well-being indicator commutation table compact (serial) cluster company standard company-wide quality control (CWQC) comparability comparable measure comparative mortality figure comparative mortality index comparison base comparison experiment comparison test compensating error compensating fluctuation compensation curve compensation of employees competing risks competition process complaint index complementary events complementary probability complementary process complete association complete block design complete census complete class of decision functions complete combination complete confounding complete correlation matrix complete count complete dissociation complete enumeration complete family of densities complete independence complete layout complete randomization complete regression complete statistic

complete sufficient statistics complete system of equations completed fertility rate completed life table completely balanced lattice square completely orthogonal completely randomized design completeness completeness of exponential family completeness of order statistics complex abnormal curve complex demodulation complex experiment complex Gaussian distribution complex table complex unit complex Wishart distribution component component analysis component bar chart component distribution component failure component part diagram component ratio component reliability components of interaction components of variance components-of-variance model composed Poisson distribution composite design composite estimate composite hypotheses composite index number composite sampling scheme composite system composition of population compound distribution compound event compound experiments compound frequency distribution

WishartWishart

compound hypergeometric distribution compound income compound negative multinomial distribution compound Poisson distribution compound Poisson process compound probability compound ratio estimate compressed limit compressed limit gauging computer intensive resampling concentration concentration parameter coefficient of concentration curve of concentration ellipse of concentration index of concentration concomitant deviation concomitant factor concomitant variables concomitant variates concomitant variation concordance coefficient of concordance concordant sample concurrent concurrent deviation condition equation conditional confidence interval conditional density function conditional distribution conditional distribution (function) conditional expectation conditional expected value conditional failure rate conditional frequency function conditional independence conditional loss conditional power function conditional probability

()( )

conditional probability density (function) conditional regression conditional reliability conditional sign test conditional statistic conditional substitution theorem conditional survival probability conditional survivor function conditional test conditional unbiased estimator confidence confidence band confidence belt confidence bounds confidence coefficient confidence curves confidence ellipsoid confidence intervals confidence level confidence limit confidence range confidence regions confidence set configuration configuration of sample confluence analysis confluent relation confounding confounding factorial experiment conjugate family conjugate family of (prior) distributions conjugate Latin squares conjugate prior distribution conjugate ranking conjugate standard square connected design consensus method conservative confidence interval conservative process conservative test consistence

() ()

consistence test coefficient of consistence consistency consistency of Bayes estimate consistency of Bayes estimation consistency of Bayes estimator consistency of MLE consistency of UMVUE consistency principle consistent estimate consistent estimation consistent estimator consistent statistic consistent test constant constant coefficient constant error constant failure period constant failure rate constant failure rate (CFR) distribution constant price constant risk estimator constant sum game constant weight constraint construction construction statistics consumer acceptance specification consumer goods consumer price index (CPI) consumer's risk (CR) consumption account contagious distribution contagious limit theorem contagious process contaminated distribution contaminated normal distribution contaminated prior distribution contingency contingency coefficient

contingency square contingency table contingency theorem contingency-type distributions contingent reserve continuity correction continuity theorem continuous change continuous data continuous distribution continuous Markov process continuous normalized design continuous normalized linear optimal design continuous population continuous probability distribution continuous probability law continuous process continuous random variable continuous sampling plan continuous stochastic process contour chart contour level contragraduation contra-harmonic mean contrary class contrary frequency contrary sign contrast contrast analysis contribution rate control chart for attributes control chart for mean control chart for variables control chart pattern control charts control factor control gaging (gauging) control level control limit factor control limits control line control number

control of substrata control plan control point control point figure control sheet control system control treatment controlled experiment controlled process controlled variability controlled variable convenience lot convergence convergence almost surely convergence almost everywhere convergence criterion convergence in distribution convergence in law convergence in measure convergence in probability convergence in th mean convergence principle convergence with probability one convergent estimate conversion conversion factor convex combination convex distribution convex function convex hull convex loss function convex set convex symmetric maximum (CSM) test convolution cooked distribution coordinate system corner test corner test of association Cornish-Fisher expansion correct selection corrected moment corrected probit

1 Cornish-Fisher

corrected time series correction factor correction for continuity correction for grouping correction for mean corrections for abruptness corrective maintenance corrective sorting correlated measure correlated sample correlation correlation analysis correlation coefficient correlation index correlation matrix correlation of attributes correlation of indices correlation of time series correlation ratio correlation ratio of X on Y correlation scatter chart correlation surface correlation table correlogram correspondence analysis correspondence posted per capita cospectrum co-spectrum cost function cost of living index number (CLIN) cost of sampling cost-benefit analysis countable additivity countable probability space counter model counter model;type I counter model;type II counting distribution counting measure counting process covariance kernel covariance matrix covariate

XY ()

 CoxStuart Cox Cox Craig Craig Cramr-Chebyshev Cramr-Lvy Cramr-RaoCramrCramr-Rao efficiency Rao Cramr-Rao inequality Cramr-Rao Cramr-Rao lower bound Cramr-Rao Cramr's contingency coefficient Cramr Cramr-Tchebychev inequality Cramr-Tchebychev Cramr-von Mises goodness of Cramr-von Mises fit test Cramr-von Mises test Cramr-von Mises Cramr-von Mises two sample Cramr-von Mises test credibility credible intervals crime rate crime statistics criminal statistics criteria for estimate criteria for estimation criteria for estimator criteria for sampling criteria for stratification criterion critical defect critical defective critical failure critical function critical level critical path critical path method (CPM) critical point covariation covarimin covariance covariance analysis covariance function covariance stationary process coverage rate Cox and Stuart's tests Cox's regression model Cox's theorem Craig effect Craig's theorem Cramr-Chebyshev inequality Cramr-Lvy theorem

critical ratio critical region critical value cross amplitude spectrum cross intensity function cross range cross section analysis cross spectrum cross-correlation cross-covariance cross-covariance generating function crossed classification crossed factors crossed index number crossed weight index number crossing of biases cross-over design cross-tabulation cross-validation criterion crowding out effect crude birth rate crude data crude death rate crude divorce rate crude marriage rate crude mode crude moment crude ratio crypto-deterministic process cubic designs with three associate classes cubic lattice cubic lattice design cuboidal lattice design culture statistics CUMSUM chart cumulant cumulant generating function cumulative average chart cumulative curve cumulative damage cumulative distribution

cumulative distribution function (CDF) cumulative error cumulative failure frequency cumulative frequency cumulative frequency curve cumulative frequency curve chart cumulative frequency distribution cumulative frequency function cumulative frequency polygon cumulative frequency table cumulative frequency table on "less-than" basis cumulative frequency table on "more-than" basis cumulative hazard function cumulative incidence rate cumulative mortality rate cumulative normal distribution cumulative probability distribution cumulative process cumulative sum (control) chart cumulative sum chart cumulative sum distribution current accounts current expenditure current income current outlays current population survey current price current receipts current transfers current weight current weight index curtailed binomial sampiing curtailed inspection curtailed sample inspection curtailed sampling curtate curve estimation curve fitting curve of equidetectability curved exponential family

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curvilinear correlation curvilinear regression curvilinear trend customs statistics cutoff point cybernetics cybernetics statistics cycle cyclic design cyclic distribution cyclic order cyclic permutation cyclic series cyclical deviation cyclical effect cyclical fluctuation cyclical movement cyclical trend cyclical unemployment cyclical variation cylindrically rotatable design D chart D statistic D2 statistic -index(Gini) damage curve damage statistics damped oscillation damping factor Dandekar's correction Daniels test Darmois-Koopman-Pitman theorem Darmois-Koopman's distributions Darmois-Skitovich theorem data data analysis data bank data base data collection data engineering data processing

D D D2 DandekarDandekar Daniels Darmois-Koopman- Pitman DarmoisKoopmanDarmoisKoopman Darmois-Skitovich

data reduction data scrutiny data snooping data transfer rate David-Barton test David's empty cell test day-population D-criteria De Finetti's theorem De Moivre-Laplace theorem De Morgan's law death process death rate debt service ratio decapitated negative binomial distribution decay decennial census decentralized statistical system decile decision decision analysis decision criterion decision function decision function space decision line decision making decision problem decision procedure decision rule decision space decision theoretic approach decision theory decision tree decomposition decomposition principle decreasing failure rate (DFR) decreasing failure rate average (DFRA) decreasing hazard rate decreasing mean residual life (DMRL) deep stratification

David-Barton David D De Finetti De Moivre-Laplace De Morgan

de-facto population defect defect chart defect classification defect prevention defective defective chart defective classification defective fraction defective number defective percentage defective prevention defective probability distribution defective sample defective unit defects per hundred units defects per unit chart deficency of statistics deficiency defining contrast defining relation deflating index deflating price indices deflator deformable model degeneracy degenerate distribution degenerate interval degenerate normal distribution degradation degree of accuracy degree of association degree of belief degree of contribution degree of confidence degree of dependence on foreign trade degree of inspection degree of randomness degree of reliability degrees of freedom de-jure population delivery quality

() ()

demerit demerit chart demerits per unit demodulation demographic statistics demography demonstration test dendogram denotation density function density of order statistics density of population dependence dependency ratio dependent dependent events dependent factor dependent observations dependent population dependent quantity dependent variable derating derived distribution derived statistic descriptive statistics descriptive survey design equation design factor design matrix design of experiments design variable designated statistics destructive test deterministic model deterministic process detrimental variable deviance deviate deviation diagnosis diagnostic arm diagonal distribution diagonal regression

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diagram dice experiment dichotomous classification dichotomy difference control chart difference estimation difference estimator difference sign test differential stochastic process diffuse prior diffuse prior distribution diffusion diffusion index diffusion process digamma function dimensional analysis dimensionality of minimal sufficient statistic dimensionality of sufficient statistics Dimroth-Watson's distribution direct correlation direct probability direct sampling direct summing design directional data Dirichlet distribution Dirichlet process Dirichlet-series distribution coefficient of disarray disaster statistics discontinuous data discontinuous distribution discontinuous process discontinuous variate discordance discordant sample discrepance discrepancy discrepant material discrete

Dimroth-WatsonDimrothWatson DirichletDirichlet Dirichlet DirichletDirichlet

 discrete lognormal distribution discrete optimal design ParetoPareto discrete Pareto distribution discrete power series distribution discrete probability distribution discrete probability law discrete process discrete random variable discrete rectangular distribution discrete spectrum discrete type III distribution discrete variable discrete variate discrete-time Markov chain discriminant analysis discriminant function discrimination discrimination power discrimination ratio discriminatory analysis dishonest process disnormality dispersion dispersion index dispersion matrix dispersion tendency displaced Poisson distribution disposable income disposable national income (DNI) discrete circular uniform distribution discrete data discrete design discrete distribution discrete exponential family discrete frequency function discrete linear-optimal design discrete location family

disposable personal income (DPI) dissection of heterogeneous distribution index of dissimilarity dissociation dissymmetry distance distribution distributed lag distribution distribution analysis distribution curve distribution diagram distribution free methods distribution function distribution of order statistics distribution of proportion distribution of run lengths distribution of sample mean distribution;averages distribution-free methods

distribution-free sufficiency distribution-free tests disturbance coefficient of distrubancy disturbed harmonic process disturbed oscillation coefficient of divergence dividing value Divisia-Roy index Divisia-Roy Divisia's index Divisia divorce rate Dixon's statistics Dixon Dodge continuous sampling plan Dodge Dodge-Romig sampling Dodge-Romig inspection table Dodge-Romig sampling plan Dodge-Romig domain of study domestic capital formation domestic energy consumption domestic product account dominant cause dominant variable

dominated convergence theorem dominated family of distributions dominating strategy Donsker's theorem Doolittle technique Doolittle's method D-optimal design dosage-mortality curve dosage-response dose metameter dosis lethalis 50% dot diagram double binomial distribution double bootstrap double change-over design double confounding double deflation double dichotomy double expectation theorem double exponential distribution double exponential regression double frequency table double hypergeometric distribution double logarithmic chart double logarithmic scale double Poisson distribution double reversal design double sampling double sampling inspection double specification limit double-ratio estimator double-sided test double-tailed test doubly noncentral F doubly stochastic Poisson process doubly truncated normal distribution down time down-cross downward bias downward cumulation downward type bias

Donsker Doolittle Doolittle D F F ()

Dragstedt-Behrens' method drift failure dual dual process duality between tests and confidence regions duality principle dummy level technique dummy observation dummy treatment dummy variable dump heat test Duncan's test Dunnett's table duo-trio test duplicate analysis duplicate sample duplicated sample duplicated unit durability Durbin's multistage variance estimator Durbin's test Durbin-Watson statistic Dvoretsky's stochastic approximation theorem Dwass-Steel test dynamic data system (DDS) dynamic model dynamic programming dynamic statistics dynamic stochastic process early failure period econometrics economic barometer economic cycle economic forecasting economic growth rate economic index number economic model economic statistics economic time-series economically active population Edgeworth approximation

Dragstedt-Behrens Duncan Dunnett Durbin Durbin Durbin-Watson(D-W) Dvoretsky Dwass-Steel Edgeworth

Edgeworth index educational and psychological statistics educational psychometry educational statistics effect effect elimination effect variable effective degrees of freedom effective error mean square effective range effective replicates effective unit effects analysis efficacy efficiency efficiency equivalence efficiency estimate efficiency estimation efficiency estimator efficiency factor efficiency index (of forecasting) efficiency of a statistic efficient estimate efficient estimation efficient estimator efficient likelihood estimator (ELE) efficient statistic Ehrenfest model eigenvalue eigenvector Eisenhart models elementary contrast elementary event elementary renewal theorem elementary unit Elfving distribution ellipsoid of concentration ellipsoidal normal distribution elliptical normal distribution elliptical truncation elliptically symmetric distributions

Edgeworth () Ehrenfest Eisenhart ElfvingElfving

ellipticity EM algorithm embedded process empirical Bayes estimation empirical Bayes estimator empirical Bayes inference empirical Bayes procedure empirical distribution function empirical moment empirical probability empirical probit empirical survival function employed persons employment statistics empty cell test end corrections endogenous variable endogenous variate endurance test Engel coefficient engineering statistics Engset distribution ensemble ensemble average entrance time entrepreneurial income entropy entry plot enumerability enumeration data enumerator envelope power function envelope risk function environmental protection statistics environmental statistics environmental stress environmental test environmetry E-optimal design epidemiological statistics episodic movement 'epsem' sampling equivariance

EM () EngsetEngset E

equal allocation principle of equal ignorance equal-probability-of-selection method equal spacings test equalizer decision rule equalizing value equally correlated distribution equal-tails test equation curve of equidetectability line of equidistribution equilibrium condition equilibrium distribution equimodal distribution equi-normal distribution equipment availability equipment; gaging and test equivalence class equivalent deviate equivalent dose equivalent samples equivariant estimators equiweighted design ergodic ergodic state ergodic theorem ergodic theory ergodicity ergodicity of stationary stochastic process ergonomics Erlang distribution Erlang's formula erratic fluctuation erratic process erratic series error error band error by chance error cause removal (ECR) error curve error factor

ErlangErlang Erlang

error function error function complement error graph error in equations error mean square error of estimation error of observation error of second kind error of the first kind error of the second kind error of the third kind error of third kind error rate error reducing power error space error sum of squares error term error variance error variation errors of measurement errors in data errors in rounded figures errors in sampling errors in surveys errors in variables errors of disturbances Esseen's lemma Esseen-type approximation essentially complete class essentially minimal complete class estimable estimable function estimate estimate error estimate of parameter estimated death rate estimated parameter estimating equation estimation estimation of density (function) estimation of difference of means estimation of population mean estimation of population size

Esseen Esseen ()

estimation of population variance estimation of probability density estimation space estimator estimator of variance Eta-function (-function) Eulerian squares Euler's constant even function even number even summation event event space eventual forecasting function evolutionary operation (EVOP) evolutionary process evolutionary spectrum exact chi-square test exact design exact identification exact sampling theory exact statistical test exceedance life test exceedances tests distribution of exceedances excess and deficit chart excess reserves coefficient of excess exchangeable (variables) exclusive and exhaustive events exhaustive sampling exhaustive survey existence probability existent population exogenous factor exogenous variable exogenous variate expectation expected life expected loss expected marginal loss expected marginal profit expected mean

(Eta) Euler Euler ()

expected normal scores test expected probability expected probit expected profit expected profit with perfect information expected risk expected sampling fraction expected utility expected value expected value of a random variable value of mean square expected error expected value of the statistic expecting life expenditure method expenditure on gross national product experiment experiment analysis experiment with mixture experimental data experimental design model experimental designs experimental error experimental factor experimental method experimental psychology experimental unit experimental variable explanatory variable explicit weight exploratory data analysis (EDA) exploratory survey explosive process explosive stochastic difference equation exponential curve exponential distribution exponential family exponential family of full rank exponential function exponential linear model exponential ordered scores exponential regression model

exponential smoothing control chart exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) model export and import structures export letter-of-credit advance export letter-of-credit loans export order statistics exports without foreign exchange settlements extended Bayes decision rule extended group divisible design extended hypergeometric distribution extensive magnitudes extensive sampling external failure cost external transactions account external variance external variation extra period change over design extrapolation extremal intensity extremal process extremal quotient extremal statistic extreme intensity extreme mean extreme process extreme rank sum test extreme statistics extreme studentized deviate extreme value distributions extreme value regression models F statistic F test F.O.B. (free on board) value fixed base index factor factor analysis factor antithesis factor cost factor income factor level

Student F F

factor loading factor matrix factor pattern factor reversal test factor rotation factor space factorial factorial cumulant generating function factorial cumulants factorial design factorial design of experiment factorial distribution factorial effect factorial experiments factorial function factorial moment generating function factorial moments factorial sum factorization theorem factors of change to general index factors of change to index fail-safe design failure failure analysis failure data failure density function failure distribution failure frequency failure frequency distribution failure mode failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) failure pattern failure process failure rate failure rate level failure terminated life test failure time failure time distribution fair game fallacies family budget investigation

family household family service price index fatality rate fatigue fatigue failure fatigue life fatigue model Fatou's lemma fault-tree analysis (FTA) F-distribution feasibility feasible solution feedback feedback cycle feedback loop Fellegis method Fermi-Dirac statistic fertility gradient fertility rate fetal death rate fetal death ratio fetal mortality fiducial fiducial confidence intervals fiducial distribution fiducial inference fiducial limits fiducial probability fiducial time distribution field complaint field data field experiment field failure data field performance field quality field reliability test field service field techniques field test field tryout field work Fieller - Hartley -Pearson measure of association

Fatou FF Fellegis Fermi-Dirac () Fieller-Hartley-Pearson

 finite arc-sine distribution finite binomial sampling plan finite difference method finite Markov chains finite multiplier finite population finite population correction (fpc) finite probability space finite process finite sampling correction fire statistics first come first served first marriage rate first moment first order ancillary first order autoregressive model first order autoregressive error model first order design first order interaction first order model first passage time first quartile first return time first-stage (sampling) unit () fiscal drag effect fiscal year Fisher formula Fisher model Fisher-Behrens test - Fisher-Hsu-RoyFisher-HsuFisher-Hsu-Roy distribution Roy Fisher-Irwin test Fisher-Irwin fishermen family figure filter final demand final inspection final product financial statistics financing;insurance;real estate and business services

fishermen household Fisher-Neyman theorem Fisher's ' B' distribution Fisher's (spherical normal) distribution Fisher's consistent estimators Fisher's distribution Fisher's exact test for the 2 2 contingency tables Fisher's ideal formula Fisher's information Fisher's information matrix Fisher's z Fisher's z-distribution Fisher's z-test Fisher's z-transformation fishery census fishery statistics Fisher-Yates test fitted value fitting fitting by least squares method five point assay fixed capital formation fixed effects model fixed number test plan fixed sample fixed sample-size (sampling) design fixed sample-size experiment fixed time test plan fixed variate fixed weight curve of flexibility F-like statistic flow chart flow diagram flow of funds statistics flows fluctuation folded contingency table folded distributions folded median folding

BB ()( ) 2 2 z z z z () () FF

follow-up force of mortality forecasting forecasting of aggregate supply and demand foreign assets foreign exchange foreign exchange settlements statistics foreign liabilities foremen quality control (FQC) fore-sight probability forestry statistics form forward difference forward equations forward linkage forward selection procedure Foster's criteria fourfold correlation fourfold table Fourier analysis Fourier transformation fractile fractile graphical analysis fraction defective fraction defective chart fractional factorial design fractional factorial experiment fractional replication fragmentary sample frame frame in survey sampling Frchet distribution Frchet's inequalities free hand method free hand trend line Freeman-Tukey transformation frequency frequency bar chart frequency curve frequency curve fitting frequency data

Foster FrchetFrchet Frchet Freeman-Tukey

frequency distribution frequency distribution function frequency distribution table frequency function frequency histogram frequency moment frequency of inspection frequency polygon frequency response function frequency series frequency substitution estimate frequency surface frequency table frequency tally frequency theory of probability Freund-Ansari test frictional unemployment Friedman rank test Fubini theorem full employment full information maximum likelihood method full rank linear model full second-order model full time equivalent functional central limit theorem functional index number functional production index functional relationship model fundamental element fundamental frequency fundamental national survey fundamental probability set fundamental random process fundamental renewal equation Furry process fuzzy G distribution Gabriel's test Gabriel-Sen statistic gage (gauge) gage inspection gain function

Freund-Ansari Friedman Fubini Furry G Gabriel Gabriel-Sen

Galton graph Galton ogive Galton-McAlister distribution Galton's individual difference problem Galton's quincunx gambler's ruin game game matrix game of chance game theory gamma coefficients gamma density gamma distribution gamma function gang punch Gani's mean difference Gantt progress chart gap estimate gap test Gart's test Garwood distribution Gauss distribution Gauss process Gauss-Doolittle method Gaussian curve Gaussian distribution Gaussian distribution function Gaussian process Gauss-Markov theorem Gauss-Poisson distribution Gauss-Seidel method Gauss-Winckler inequality Geary's contiguity ratio Geary's ratio Gehan test gene frequency gene frequency analysis

Galton Galton Galton-McAlisterGaltonMcAlister Galton Galton () () ()() () Gani (Gantt) Gart GarwoodGarwood (Gauss(Gauss) (Gauss)(Gauss) (Gauss) (Gauss) (GaussMarkov) (Gauss- Seidel) (GaussWinckler) Geary Geary Gehan

general factor general government account general government consumption expenditure general index number general interdependent system general law of error general linear model general mean general renewal process general solution general survey general table generalized Bayes' decision rule generalized binomial distribution generalized bivariate exponential distribution generalized classical linear estimators generalized contagious distribution generalized dispersion generalized distribution

()( generalized gamma distribution ) generalized inverse generalized inverse matrix generalized least squares estimators generalized likelihood ratio generalized likelihood ratio tests generalized linear estimate generalized linear models generalized log-gamma () distribution () generalized log-gamma () regression model generalized maximum likelihood estimator generalized multinomial distribution generalized normal distribution generalized polykays k generalized power series distribution generalized right angular designs generalized sequential probability ratio tests

generalized stable law generalized STER distribution generalized T2 distribution generalized variance generating function genetic statistics genetic stochastic model genetic variance geographic series geometric distribution geometric mean geometric moving average control chart geometric range geometrical probability Gibrat's distribution Gibrat's law Gini's coefficient of concentration Gini's hypothesis Gini's index girdle distribution given period given price given year Glivenko-Cantelli lemma Glivenko's theorem Gnedenko-Koroljuk distributions Gnedenko-Koroljuk theorem Gnedenko's theorem Gompertz curve Gompertz's law good lot Goodman-Kruskal tau goodness-of-fit test G-optimal design Goutereau's constant goverment bonds outstanding government statistics grade grade correlation grading of product quality

STERSTER T2T2 GibratGibrat Gibrat (Gini) (Gini) (Gini) Glivenko-Cantelli Glivenko GnedenkoKoroljukGnedenkoKoroljuk Gnedenko-Koroljuk Gnedenko Gompertz Gompertz Goodman-Kruskal G Goutereau

gradual failure graduation curve Graeco-Latin squares Gram-Charlier series type A Gram-Charlier series type B Gram-Charlier series type C Gram's criterion grand average grand mean grand total graphic representation graphical estimator Grenander's uncertainty principle grid grid sampling gross gross amount of actual collection gross average earning statistics gross capital formation gross domestic product (GDP) gross domestic products at factor cost gross domestic products at market price gross fixed capital formation gross income gross national product (GNP) gross national product at constant prices gross terms of trade group group comparison group divisible designs group divisible incomplete block designs group divisible rotatable designs group factor group screening methods group sequential sampling inspection group sequential sampling plan group size grouped data grouped frequency distribution

(Graeco-Latin) Gram-CharlierA Gram-Charlier B Gram-Charlier C Gram Grenander

grouped observations grouped Poisson distribution grouped sequential probability ratio test grouping grouping lattice grouping strata growth curve Grubbs' estimators Grubbs' rule G-statistics g-test Gumbel distribution Gumbel's inequalities Gupta's subset selection method Gupta's symmetry test Gurland's generalization of Neyman's distribution Haldane's discrepancy measure half normal distribution half normal plots half-Cauchy distribution half-invariant half-normal probability paper half-period half-plaid square half-replicate design half-width Hammersley-Chapman-Robbins inequality Hardy summation method Hardy's formula Hardy-Weinberg proportions Harley approximation harmonic analysis harmonic distribution harmonic mean harmonic process Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System Harris walk Harrison's method Hartley-Rao scheme

Grubbs Grubbs G g GumbelGumbel Gumbel Gupta Gupta NeymanGurland Haldane () Hammersley-ChapmanRobbins Hardy Hardy Hardy-Weinberg Harley Harris Harrison Hartley-Rao

Hartley's test hazard analysis hazard function hazard plots hazard rate (distribution) health statistics heavy tail distribution Hellinger distance Helly-Bray theorems Helly's first theorem Helmert criterion Helmert distribution Helmert transformation Hermite distributions Hessian matrix heteroclitic heterogeneity heterogeneous population heterogeneous strata heterograde heterokurtic heteroscedastic heteroscedastic model heteroscedastic variation heteroscedasticity heterotypic hidden periodicity hierarchical birth and death process hierarchical classification hierarchical group divisible design hierarchy high correlation higher order autoregressive scheme higher order confounding higher order lag structures higher transition matrix highest posterior density intervals high-low graph hill-climbing method histogram hitting point H1der's inequality Hodges bivariate sign test

Hartley () Hellinger Helly-Bray Helly Helmert HelmertHelmert Helmert HermiteHermite Hess Hlder Hodges

Hodges-Ajne's test Hodges-Lehmann estimate Hodges-Lehmann estimator Hodges-Lehmann one-sample estimator Hoeffding's independence test Hoeffding's inequality Hollander-Proschan ' new better than used' test Hollander's bivariate symmetry test Hollander's parallelism test Holt's method homoclitic homogeneity homogeneity of experimental conditions homogeneity of variances homogeneous homogeneous process homogeneous stratum homogeneous transition probability homograde homokurtic index of homophily homoscedastic homoscedastic model homoscedastic variation homoscedasticity honest process horizontal bar chart horizontal scale Horvitz-Thompson estimator Hotelling-Pabst test Hotelling's T statistic Hotelling's T2 statistic Hotelling's test (depen dent correlations) household housing unit Huber estimate Huber loss function human engineering human error humidity test

Hodges-Ajne Hodges-Lehmann Hodges-Lehmann Hodges-Lehmann Hoeffding Hoeffding HollanderProschan Hollander Hollander Holt Horvitz-Thompson Hotelling-Pabst HotellingT HotellingT2 Hotelling() Huber Huber

hump hundred-percent bar chart hundred-percent inspection Hunt-Stein theorem hybrid ratio hybrid system hyper square hyperbolic secant distribution hypercube hypergeometric distribution hypergeometric probability hypergeometric series hyper-Graeco Latin square hypernormal dispersion hypernormal distribution hypernormality hyper-Poisson distribution hyper-spherical normal distribution hypothesis hypothesis testing hypothesis;statistical hypothetical population hypothetical universe ideal formula ideal frequency curve ideal frequency distribution ideal index number identical categorizations identical errors identically distributed random variables identifiability identifiability of parameter identifiable parameter identifiable units identification identity matrix ideological statistics illegitimacy fertility rate illusory association illusory correlation imbedded process

Hunt-Stein

imperfect frame implicit strata implicit weight import order statistics importance sampling impossible event improper prior distribution improved binomial probability paper impulse response function imputation imputed interest imputed rent in control state in process inspection inadequately employed inadmissibility inadmissibility of James-Stein estimator inadmissibility of Pitman estimator inadmissibility of UMVUE inadmissible inadmissible decision rules inadmissible estimator inadmissible linear estimators inadmissible minimal sufficient statistic inadmissible strategy inbreeding coefficient incidence matrix incidence matrix of design incidence rate incidental defect incidental parameter includances tests inclusion-exclusion formula income distribution income from property income in kind income parity index income per capita income tax income terms of trade

() James-Stein Pitman UMVUE

incoming lot quality incoming material control incoming material rating plan incomplete beta function incomplete block incomplete block designs incomplete census incomplete data incomplete gamma function incomplete Latin square incomplete list incomplete moment incomplete multiresponse design incomplete randomization inconsistency inconsistent estimator inconsistent statistic increase in stocks increasing density increasing failure rate (IFR) increasing failure rate average (IFRA) increasing hazard rate (IHR) increasing hazard rate average (IHRA) increasing mean residual life (IMRL) increment increment rate independence independence frequency independence in probability sense independent independent action independent and identically distributed (iid)random variables independent binomial distributions binomial independent experiments independent censoring independent events independent experiments independent factors independent random samples independent random variables independent samples

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independent tests independent trials independent variable independent variables in regression independent variates index index correlation index death rate index numbers index of consumer prices index of dissimilarity index of quantity index of response index of reversion index of rural consumer prices index of urban consumer prices indexes of prices paid by farmers indexes of prices received by farmers indexes of seasonal variation indicative factor indicator function indicators of alienation indices of prices indices of real wages indices of wholesale prices indifference curve indifference region indifference statistics indifference zone indifference-level index number indirect least squares (ILS) indirect sampling inductive behavior inductive inference inductive statistics industrial census industrial production index industrial statistics industries inefficient estimator inefficient statistic inequality coefficient

inertia of large number infallibility infant mortality period infant mortality rate infeasibility inference inferential statistics infinite dimensional probability space infinite divisibility infinite Markov chain infinite population infinitely divisible distribution infinitely divisible law inflated distributions inflation factor influence curve influence function informal economy information information inequality information matrix information theory informative prior informative prior distribution inherent availability inherent bias inherent failure inherent reliability inherent system initial block initial distribution initial failure injury severity rate in-process quality control (IPQC) input coefficient input distribution input-output coefficient input-output process input-output table inspection inspection by attributes inspection by variables inspection cost

inspection diagram Inspection error inspection lot inspection paradox inspection plan inspection table instability instantaneous death rate instantaneous failure rate instantaneous force of mortality instantaneous state instantaneous transition probability institutional equations instrumental variables insurance statistics integer programming integral variate integrated data integrated moving average (IMA) process integrated spectrum intensity intensity function intensity of transvariation intensity rate intensive magnitudes intensive sampling interacting variables interaction interaction component interaction mean square interaction sum of squares interarrival time interblock interblock comparison interblock estimation intercalated Latin square intercept of a line intercept of a plane interchangeability interchangeable random variables interclass correlation inter-class correlation

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interclass correlation coefficient interclass variance intercluster variation intercorrelation interdecile range interdependence coefficients interdependence of industries statistics intergraduated values intermediate demand intermediate inputs intermediate product intermittent failure internal least squares internal regression internal tax internal variance internal-control procedure international standard classification international standard industrial classification international statistical classification of diseases;injuries and causes of death international trade statistics interpenetrating samples interpenetrating subsamples interpolation interpolation test interquartile range interrupted distributions interval distribution interval estimate interval estimation intervals abutting one another intervening variable interviewer bias intrablock intrablock difference intrablock estimates intrablock subgroup intraclass correlation intraclass ratio intraclass variance

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intracluster variation intrinsic accuracy intrinsic availability intrinsic precision intrinsically linear intrinsically nonlinear intuitive probability invariance invariance method invariance test invariant invariant decision problem invariant factor invariant loss function invariant prior distribution invariant test inventory change inventory model inventory stock inverse inverse binomial sampling inverse correlation inverse cumulative distribution function inverse distributions inverse element inverse exponential average inverse factorial series distribution inverse Gaussian distribution inverse hypergeometric distribution inverse interpolation inverse moment inverse multinomial sampling inverse normal scores tests inverse Plya distribution inverse polynomial inverse probability inverse sampling inverse serial correlation inverse sine transformation inverse tanh transformation

() (Gauss)(G auss) PlyaPlya

inverse transformation inversion inverted beta distribution inverted Dirichlet distribution invertibility invisible underemployment inward variation irreducible Markov chain irregular kollectiv irrelevant component Irwin distribution Ising-Stevens distribution isodynes isokurtosis isolated change isolated lot isoline isometric chart isometric transformation isotonic regression function isotropic distributions isotropy isotype method item non-response item-by-item sequential sampling inspection law of iterated logarithm iteration method iterative process of A-optimal design jackknife James-Stein estimator Jeffreys' prior distribution Jensen's inequality Jirina sequential procedures jittered sampling John's cyclic incomplete block designs Johnson's system of distributions joint confidence region

()( ) DirichletDirichl et IrwinIrwin Ising-StevensIsingStevens A James-Stein Jeffreys Jensen Jirina John Johnson

joint confidence region for population mean and variance joint correlation joint density of order statistics joint distributions joint efficiency joint efficient estimates joint estimates joint frequency function joint moment joint moment generating function joint prediction intervals joint probability joint probability density function joint probability distribution function joint probability function joint regression joint sufficiency jointly sufficient statistic Jonckheere's k-sample test Jordan's identity J-shaped distribution judgment sample judgment sampling judicial statistics jump matrix jump statistic jurimetry just identified model juvenile delinquency rate juvenile offender rate Kagan-Linnik-Rao theorem Kamat's test Kantorowitch's theorem Kaplan-Meier estimator Kapteyn's distribution Kapteyn's transformation Krber's method 'k'-class estimator k-dimensional blocking Kendall's partial correlation coefficient Kendall's 'S' score

Jonckheerek Jordan J Kangan-Linnik-Rao Kamat Kantorowitch Kaplan-Meier KapteynKapteyn Kapteyn Krber k k Kendall Kendall'S'

Kendall's tau() Kendall's terminology kernel approximation kernel density estimation kernel discriminant analysis kernel regression estimation Kesten's process key Khintchine's theorem Kiefer inequality Kiefer-Wolfowitz process Klotz's test Knut-Vik square kollectiv Kolmogorov-Smirnov onesample test Kolmogorov axioms Kolmogorov equations Kolmogorov representation Kolmogorov strong law of large numbers Kolmogorov test for goodness of fit Kolmogorov's inequality Kolmogorov's inequality for martingales Kolmogorov's theorem

KendallKendall Kendall Kesten Khintchine Kiefer Kiefer-Wolfowitz Klotz Knut-Vik KolmogorovSmirnov Kolmogorov Kolmogorov Kolmogorov Kolmogorov Ko1mogorov Kolmogorov Kolmogorov

Kolmogorov KolmogorovKolmogorov-Smirnov SmirnovKolmogorovdistributions Smirnov Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistics Kolmogorov-Smirnov Kolmogorov-Smirnov test Kolmogorov-Smirnov Konyus conditions Konyus Konyus index number Konyus Koroljuk's theorem Koroljuk Kounias' inequality Kounias k-out-of-n system nk Kronecker product of designs Kronecker Kronecker product of matrices Kronecker Kruskal statistic Kruskal Kruskal-Wallis test Kruskal-Wallis k-statistics k Kuder-Richardson formula Kuder-Richardson Kuiper statistic Kuiper

Kullback-Leibler distance function Kullback-Leibler information kurtosis label in survey sampling labels labor accession rate labor force labor force participation rate labor force population labor force statistics labor force survey labor intensity labor productivity index labor separation rate labor statistics labor turnover rate labor turnover statistics laboratory reliability test lack of fit lack-of-memory property ladder indices ladder variable lag lag correlation lag covariance lag hysteresis lag regression lagged endogenous variable Lagrange multiplier test Laguerre polynomials lambda distributions lambda-criterion ( criterion) lambdagram Lancaster's partition of chisquares land statistics Laplace distribution Laplace transform Laplace-Lvy theorem Laplace's law of succession Laplace's theorem large deviation theory large lot large sample

Kullback-Leibler Kullback-Leibler Lagrange Laguerre Lancaster LaplaceLaplace Laplace Laplace-Lvy Laplace Laplace

large sample distribution of maximum likelihood estimator large sample theory Laspeyres' formula Laspeyres' index last come first served latent root distributions latent structure analysis latent variable Latin cubes Latin rectangles Latin square design Latin square stratification Latin squares lattice lattice designs lattice distribution lattice random variable lattice sampling lattice square law law enforcement statistics law of average law of causality law of chance law of iterated logarithm law of large numbers law of segregation law of small numbers law of zero or unity layout L-criteria least absolute value estimates least favorable configuration least favorable distributions least favorable prior distribution least informative distribution least significance difference (LSD) least squares estimator (LSE) least squares method least squares principle least variance difference method Lebesgue measure

L Lebesgue

left skewness left tail decreasing left-sided test left-tailed test Legendre polynomials Lehmann alternatives Lehmann's test Lehmann-Scheff theorem length of run leptokurtic curve leptokurtosis Leslie's test less-than cumulation L-estimator lethality rate letters-of-credit statistics level level of a factor level of a test level of control level of significance leverage Lvy convergence concentration function Lvy representation Lvy-Khintchine representation Lvy-Pareto distribution Lvy's distance Lexian distributions lexicographical order liability Liapounov's condition Liapounov's inequality Liapounov's theorem library statistics life cycle life cycle cost life distribution life tables life test lifetime light-tailed distribution

Legendre Lehmann Lehmann Lehmann-Scheff Leslie L Lvy Lvy Lvy-Khintchine Lvy-ParetoLvyyPareto Lvy LexisLexis Liapounov Liapounov Liapounov

likelihood likelihood equation likelihood function likelihood ratio likelihood ratio confidence regions likelihood ratio dependence likelihood ratio method likelihood ratio statistic likelihood ratio tests Lilliefors test limit distribution limit process limit theorems limit value limited information methods limiting availability limiting design limiting distribution limiting process limiting quality (LQ) limiting risk deficiency (LRD) limiting risk efficiency (LRE) limiting variance Lincoln index Lindeberg-Feller theorem Lindeberg-Lvy theorem Lindeberg's condition Lindley's integral equation Lindley's theorem line chart line diagram line of best fit line of equal distribution line of regression line of regression of X on Y line of regression of Y on X line of trend line sampling line spectrum linear approximation linear change linear combination linear contrast

Lilliefors Lincoln Lindeberg-Feller Lindeberg-Lvy Lindeberg Lindley Lindley XY YX

linear correlation linear discriminant function linear estimate linear estimator linear failure rate distribution linear filter linear functional relationship linear hypothesis linear hypothesis model linear interpolation linear least squares method linear maximum likelihood method linear model linear operator linear optimum estimator linear prediction linear process linear programming linear rank tests linear regression linear regression analysis linear regression prediction linear response linear stochastic difference equation linear structural relation linear sufficiency linear systematic statistic linear transformation linear trend linear unbiased estimator linear-circular correlation linear-optimal linear-optimal design lineo-normal distribution link function link relatives linked blocks linked paired comparison designs linked samples Lipschitz condition list list sample

Lipschitz

literacy survey Livi's index Lloyd's method local asymptotic admissibility local asymptotic efficiency local statistic local tabulation localities locally asymptotically most powerful test locally asymptotically most stringent test locally D-optimal design locally minimum variance unbiased estimator locally most powerful rank order test locally most powerful test location location equivariant estimator location measure location parameter location shift alternative hypothesis location test location-scale parameter location-scale parameter family lods log concave distributions log convex distributions log convex tolerance limits logarithmic chart logarithmic distribution logarithmic normal distribution logarithmic probability paper logarithmic scale logarithmic series distribution logarithmic transformation logarithmic-series distribution log-chi squared distribution log-gamma distribution logistic curve logistic distribution logistic life table model logistic process

Livi Lloyd D

 log-zero-Poisson distribution Lomax distribution LomaxLomax long range forecast long tail distribution longitudinal survey longitudinal data analysis long-time trend loop plan L-optimal design L Lorenz curve Lorenz Lorenz curve method Lorenz loss function loss matrix loss of information lot lot acceptance criterion lot by lot acceptance sampling lot by lot inspection lot fraction defective lot number lot quality lot quality level lot quality protection lot size lot tolerance lot tolerance failure rate (LTFR) lot tolerance fraction defective (LTFD) lot tolerance fractional reliability deviation (LTFRD) lot tolerance percent defective (LTPD) lot tolerance sampling table logit logitudinal log-likelihood log-linear models loglog transformation log-logistic distribution lognormal distribution log-normal distribution log-rank tests

lottery sampling Lowe index lower bound lower boundary lower confidence interval lower confidence limit lower control limit (LCL) lower limit lower order bias estimator lower quartile lower specification limit (LSL) lowpoint L-statistics L-tests lumped variance test Lyttken's correction missing values Macaulay's formula Madow-Leipnik distribution magic square designs magnitude of class interval Mahalanobis distance Mahalanobis' generalized distance mail questionnaire mail questionnaire sampling mail sampling main effect maintainability analysis maintenance major heading major defect major metropolitan Makeham's law managerial statistics mandatory tolerance manifold classification manifold distribution Mann-Kendall test Mann-Whitney test Mantel-Haenzel test manual tabulation manufacture statistics

Lowe L L Lyttken Macaulay Madow-LeipnikMadowLeipnik Mahalanobis Mahalanobis Makeham Mann-Kendall Mann-Whitney Mantel-Haenzel

Marcinkiewicz's theorem marginal category marginal classification marginal density (function) marginal distribution marginal probability marginal probability density marginal probability density function marginal probability distribution marginal propensity to consume marginal propensity to save marginal utility marker variable market survey Markov chains Markov decision processes Markov estimate Markov inequality Markov processes Markov renewal processes Markov time marriage rate Marshall-Olkin distribution Marshall-Edgeworth-Bowley index martingales mass observation master samples matched pair experiments matched samples matching matching coefficient matching distribution maternal mortality rate mathematical expectation mathematical statistics matrix matrix game matrix sampling maverick maximal invariant function maximax criterion maximin criterion

Marcinkiewicz () Marshall-OlkinMarshallOlkin Marshall-Edgeworth-Bowley ()

maximin principle maximin strategy maximum expected profit maximum F-ratio maximum likelihood equation maximum likelihood estimate maximum likelihood estimation maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) maximum likelihood method maximum probability estimator maximum standard deviation (MSD) Maxwell distribution Maxwell-Boltzmann statistic McNemar's test mean mean absolute deviation mean absolute error mean convergence mean deviation (MD) mean deviation about the mean mean deviation about the median mean deviation dispersion mean difference mean down time mean ergodic theorem mean error mean fraction defective mean life mean life between failures mean life to failure mean likelihood estimator mean linear successive difference mean operating time mean probit difference mean range mean rank mean reliability level (MRL) mean residual lifetime mean semi-squared difference mean service rate mean square

F MaxwellMaxwell Maxwell-Boltzmann McNemar

mean square consecutive fluctuation estimator mean square contingency mean square deviation mean square error (MSE) mean square successive difference between failures mean time (MTBF) of maintenance mean time actions mean time to failure (MTTF) mean time to first failure mean time to repair (MTTR) mean trigonometric deviation mean up time mean values mean wearout life mean-value parametrization (of exponential family) measurable function measurable set measurable transformation measure measure of central tendency measure of scale measure space measure theory measure theory of probability measurement accuracy measurement control chart measurement error measurement precision measurement reliability test measures of air pollution measures of dispersion measures of location medial test median median centre median class median control chart median deviation median direction median effective dose median error

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median F-statistic median lethal dose median line median point of population median rank median regression curve median test median unbiased confidence interval median unbiasedness medical and public health statistics medical statistics Mellin transform memoryless property of distribution merger of tolerances merit method Merrington-Pearson approximation mesokurtosis M-estimator meta information (meta data) metameter meteorological statistics method of agreement method of average method of difference method of factorial moments method of least squares method of link relatives method of maximum likelihood method of moments method of monthly averages method of moving averages method of moving range method of orthogonal functions method of overlapping maps method of selected points method of semi-average method of summation method of weighted moving averages metric transitivity microcosm (small universe) microsimulation middle term

F Mellin Merrington-Pearson M

mid-mean mid-point mid-quartile mid-range mid-rank method mid-value mid-year population Miller distribution Miller's jack-knife test Mills' ratio minimum safe process average minimum stable distribution minimal complete class minimal cut set of system minimal essential completeness minimal path minimal path set of system minimal sufficient partition minimal sufficient statistic minimax criterion minimax decision rules minimax design minimax estimate minimax estimation minimax estimator minimax loss function minimax principle minimax regret principle minimax risk minimax robust estimation minimax robust estimator minimax rule minimax strategy minimax test minimum amount inspection minimum Bayes risk minimum chi-square method minimum chi-squared (X2) minimum completeness minimum discrimination information statistic minimum domain of attraction of a distribution

MillerMiller Miller Mills

minimum expected loss minimum expected risk minimum living expenditure minimum logit chi-squared minimum norm quadratic unbiased estimator(MINQUE) minimum normit chi-square estimation minimum normit chi-square estimator minimum risk equivariant (MRE) estimator minimum risk invariant estimate minimum variance minimum variance unbiased estimator mining statistics Minkowski's inequality minor defect minor defective minor failure minor heading minor of a determinant missing data missing observations missing plot technique mission availability mission time misuse failure Mitscherlich equation mixed autoregressive-integratedmoving average process mixed autoregressive-moving average (ARMA) process mixed autoregressive-regressive system mixed classification mixed coefficient mixed distribution mixed exponential response law mixed extension mixed factorial experiments mixed Markov process mixed model

Minkowski Mitscherlich

mixed moment mixed sampling mixed spectrum mixed strategy mixed variables-attributes acceptance sampling mixed-up observations mixture of distributions M-lattice design minimax invariant estimate modal class modal output modal point modality mode mode of failure model model diagnostic checking model experiment model I model II model of the coherent system model simulation test moderate skewness moderately asymmetrical distribution modification time modified binomial distribution modified control limits modified crude divorce rate modified exponential curve modified Latin square modified limit modified mean modified mean square successive difference modified minimum chi-square method modified mixed model modified normal distributions modified von Neumann ratio modulus mixed model modulus of precision Molina's table moment about arbitrary origin

M von Neumann Molina

moment about mean moment about origin moment coefficient moment distribution moment estimator moment function moment generating function (mgf) moment matrix moment ratios moments moments of binomial distribution money flows money supply monitored maintenance monohybrid monomial monomial matrix monotone convergence theorem monotone decision procedure monotone likelihood ratio monotone regression monotonic structure Monte-Carlo methods monthly average monthly labor survey Mood-Brown estimation (of a line) Mood-Brown median test Mood's W-test Moran's test statistic morbidity rate morbidity statistics more-than cumulation Morgenstern distributions mortality mortality rate mortality statistics mortality table Mortara formula Moses ranklike dispersion test Moses test most efficient estimator most efficient linear system

Monte-Carlo Mood-Brown Mood-Brown MoodW Moran MorgensternMorgenstern Mortara Moses Moses

most powerful critical region most powerful rank test most powerful test most probable value most stringent test Mosteller's K-sample slippage test movement of population mover-stayer model moving annual total moving average by 12 months moving average chart moving average disturbance moving average method moving average model moving average operator moving average process moving average process of order q (MA(q)) moving average scheme moving axis moving observer technique moving range moving range method moving seasonal variance moving summation process moving total moving weights mth values moving averages problem of m-rankings M-statistic multi-binomial test multicollinearity multi-decision problem multidimensional contingency tables multidimensional index multi-dimensional normal distribution multi-dimensional normal regression multidimensional scaling multi-equational model multi-factorial design multi-level continuous sampling plans multilinear process

MostellerK q m() m M

multilinear regression multimodal multimodal distribution multimodality multinomial distributions multinomial population multinomial trials multi-phase sampling multiple multiple association multiple attributive classification multiple bar chart multiple characteristics multiple chart multiple classification multiple comparison test multiple comparisons multiple contingency multiple control chart multiple correlation multiple correlation coefficient multiple correlation ratio multiple covariance multiple criteria multiple cropping index multiple curvilinear correlation multiple decision methods multiple decision problem multiple factor analysis multiple failure modes multiple frequency table multiple linear correlation multiple linear regression multiple Markov process multiple measurements multiple normal correlation multiple phase process multiple Poisson distribution multiple Poisson process multiple random starts multiple range test multiple recapture census

multiple regression multiple regression equation multiple replication multiple sampling multiple sampling inspection plan multiple smoothing method multiple stratification multiple-stage decision problem multiplication theorem of probability effect of multiplicative covariates multiplicative process multi-product plant multistage analysis multistage decision process multi-stage estimation multistage sampling multi-stage sampling multi-temporal model multitype branching process multi-type branching process multi-valued decision multivariate analysis multivariate analysis of covariance model multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) multivariate autoregressive multivariate beta distribution multivariate binomial distribution multivariate Burr's distribution multivariate central limit theorem multivariate Chebyshev inequalities covariance multivariate inequality multivariate decreasing failure rate (MDFR) distribution multivariate distributions multivariate exponential distribution multivariate 'F' distribution multivariate hypergeometric distribution

() () BurrBurr Chebyshev FF

multivariate increasing failure rate (MIFR) distribution multivariate inverse hypergeometric distribution multivariate lifetime models multivariate linear regression multivariate moment multivariate monotone failure rate distribution multivariate multinomial distribution multivariate negative binomial distribution multivariate negative hypergeometric distribution

multivariate normal distribution PlyaPly multivariate Plya distribution a ParetoPare multivariate Pareto distribution to PascalPasc multivariate Pascal distribution al multivariate Poisson distribution multivariate processes multivariate quality control multivariate regression multivariate signed rank test multivariate statistics () Murthy's estimator Murthy mutilated distribution mutual deviation mutually exclusive mutually exclusive events n repeated trials n narrow limit gage natality national accounts national consumption national defense statistics national economic statistics national income national income statistics

national savings national savings rate national tax natural conjugate prior natural exponential families natural increase rate natural parameter space natural process limit natural scale natural sufficient statistic natural tolerance limit natural unit n-dimensional distribution function n-dimensional probability space nearly balanced designs nearly best linear estimator near-neighbor estimation negative association negative binomial distribution negative binomial model negative correlation negative estimate of variance component negative exponential distribution negative factorial multinomial distribution negative hypergeometric distribution negative moments negative multinomial distribution negative skewness neighborhood family (of distributions) neonatal mortality rate nested balanced incomplete block design nested classification nested design nested experiment nested factor nested hypotheses nested model nested random factors nested row-column designs nested sampling

n n ()

net correlation net domestic product (NDP) net excess reserves net income net lending net material product net national product (NNP) net present value net reproduction rate net-migrants rate network analysis network of samples network sampling networks of queues neutral curve new design control new-better-than-used (NBU) new-better-than-used (NBU) distribution new-better-than-used in expectation (NBUE) Newman-Keuls test Newton iteration extensions new-worse-than-used (NWU) new-worse-than-used (NWU) distribution new-worse-than-used in expection (NWUE) Neyman allocation Neyman model Neyman-Pearson fundamental lemma Neyman-Pearson lemma Neyman-Pearson tests Neyman-Pearson theory Neyman's factorization theorem Neyman's shortest unbiased confidence intervals Neyman's 2 test Neyman-Scott model Noether's test for cyclical trend noise effect nomic nominal data

Newman-Keuls Neyman Neyman Neyman-Pearson Neyman-Pearson Neyman-Pearson Neyman-Pearson Neyman Neyman Neyman 2 Neyman-Scott Noether

 () non-central beta distribution () non-central chi-square (X2) distribution noncentral composite design non-central confidence interval non-central F-distribution FF non-central multivariate beta () distribution () non-central multivariate FF distribution F non-central t-distribution tt WishartWi non-central Wishart distribution shart noncentrality parameter non-circular statistic non-conforming article non-conforming product nonconstant-sum games non-convex loss function noncooperative equilibrium non-defective unit non-destructive testing (NDT) non-financial enterprises;corporate and quasinon-homogeneous non-homogeneous transition probability noninformative prior distribution non-labor force population non-linear correlation non-linear least squares method non-linear model nominal definition nominal dimension nominal specification nominal value nominal wage index nominal zero nominee elected ratio nomograms nomography non-absorbing state

non-linear parametrization non-linear regression nonlinear renewal theory non-linear transformation non-linear trend non-normal distribution non-normal population nonnormalized design non-null hypothesis non-numerical tolerance nonobservable errors non-operating time non-orthogonal data non-parametric nonparametric family nonparametric hypothesis nonparametric method nonparametric model nonparametric statistics nonpreferred sample non-probability sampling non-random sample non-randomized decision rule non-regular estimator non-relevant failure non-response nonresponse adjustment non-response error non-sampling error nonsense correlation nonsequential experimental design non-significant non-singular distribution non-singular linear least squares non-standard Latin square non-stationary Gaussian process non-stationary time series non-zero minimum life normal surface normal approximation normal approximation to binomial distribution

normal autoregressive Markov series normal correlation normal curve normal deviate normal dispersion normal distribution normal equations normal equivalent deviate normal frequency curve normal frequency distribution normal inspection normal law normal law of error normal mean normal mixture normal mode normal one-sample problem normal population normal prior distribution normal probability normal probability law normal probability paper normal probability plot normal regression model normal residents normal scores normal scores estimator normal scores tests normal specification normal stochastic process normal test normal transformation normal two-sample problem normal variance normality normalization normalization of frequency function normalization of scores normalized cumulative periodogram normalized design normalized D-optimal design normalized equation

normalized factor normalized random variable normalized T scores normalized Z scores normalizing transform np chart nuisance parameters nuisance variable null event null hypothesis null recurrent state number of admissions number of classes number of clinical visits number of days with precipitation number of defectives number of defects number of degrees of freedom number of first visits number of labor turnover of employees on payrolls number of runs number scale numerical data numerical prediction nutrition statistics Nyquist frequency Nyquist-Shannon theorem 'O' statistics objective average objective function objective index objective probability oblimax oblique factor oblimin observable variable observational error observational point observational studies observations observed value

T Z Nyquist Nyquist-Shannon O

 OC Olmstead-Tukey one-way analysis of variance one-way classification one-way layout open market operation open sequential scheme open-ended classes open-ended distribution open-ended question operating characteristic operating characteristic (OC) (OC) curve operating characteristic function operation rate operation redundancy operation reliability obsolescence losses OC curve occupancy problems octiles odds odds ratio offender rate official statistics ogive ogive curve ogive function Olmstead-Tukey test of association on line inspection on the job trainning one hundred percent inspection one person household one point design one stage sampling one step transition matrix one step transition probability one tail table one way layout one-hit model one-sample model one-sample problem one-sided test one-tailed statistical test one-tailed test

operational availability operational readiness operational rule operations research operative symbol operator operator dominant system operator performance opinion survey optimal asymptotic test optimal control model optimal decision optimal design optimal gestation period optimal mixed strategy optimal sampling plan optimal sequential-sampling plan optimal spacing of order statistics optimal stopping rules optimal stopping time optimal terminal decision optimal test statistic optimal strategy optimality of design optimization procedure optimum action optimum allocation optimum estimate optimum estimator optimum feasible solution optimum level optimum linear predictor optimum percent to match in sampling optimum sample size optimum statistic optimum stratification optimum test optimum weight function ordance sampling table Ord-Carver system of distributions order distribution order of coefficients

() Ord-Carver

order of interaction order of moments order of stationarity order statistics ordered alternative hypothesis ordered categorization ordered observations ordered population ordered random sample ordered series orderly stationary point process orders-received statistics ordinal data ordinal scales ordinary least squares (OLS) origin year original data original group original inspection Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process orthant probabilities orthogonal arrays orthogonal contrasts orthogonal designs orthogonal functions orthogonal Latin squares orthogonal linear transformation orthogonal matrix orthogonal partition orthogonal polynomials orthogonal processes orthogonal random variables orthogonal regression orthogonal squares orthogonal table orthogonal tests orthogonal transformation orthogonal transformations of random vectors orthogonal variate transformation orthogonal vectors orthogonality orthogonality of designs

Ornstein-Uhlenbeck

orthogonalization process orthonormal system oscillation index of oscillation oscillatory process osculatory interpolation other external public debts out of control state outcome outer control limit outgoing inspection outgoing product outgoing quality curve outlier prone distributions outliers out-migrants out-migrants (immigrants) rate outward variation overfitting overall data over-all estimate overall plot of residuals over-all sampling fraction over-all variance over-all variation overdispersion overestimation overidentification over-identification overlap design overlapping coefficient overlapping sampling unit overlapping tolerance over-stress failure Paasche index paired comparisons paired data paired variates pairwise independence Palm functions panel survey parabollic regression parallel fluctuation

() Palm

parallel line assay parallel redundancy parallel system parallel-series system parameter parameter drift parameter estimation parameter matrix parameter of location parameter of scale parameter point parameter shift parameter space parameter vector parameter-free method parametric hypothesis parametric linear programming parametric model parametric programming parametric statistical inference parametrization parent distribution parent population Pareto curve Pareto distribution Pareto index Pareto-type distribution parity index parity price parity progression probability parity ratio parsimony part association part correlation coefficient of part-correlation partial association partial association coefficient partial autocorrelation partial confounding partial contingency partial correlation partial correlation coefficient partial correlation ratio

() Pareto ParetoPareto Pareto ParetoPareto

partial distribution table partial enumeration partial exchangeability partial failure partial F-test partial least squares partial likelihood partial nonresponse partial productivity index partial rank correlation partial redundancy partial regression partial replacement partial sufficiency partial test partial truncated distributions partially balanced arrays partially balanced incomplete block designs partially balanced lattice square partially balanced linked block design partially consistent observations partially expanding design partially linear model partially linked block design partially omitting of interactions partition partition of chi-squared parts inspection Pascal distribution passage times passenger load factor (%) passive repair time patch path analysis path coefficients method pattern pattern frequency pattern function pattern of variation pattern recognition patterned means

F PascalPascal ()

patterned sampling pay-off matrix peak Pearl-Read curve Pearson coefficient of correlation Pearson criterion Pearson curve Pearson measure of skewness Pearson-Durbin ratio Pearson's chi-squared test Pearson's contingency coefficient Pearson's X2 distribution Peek's inequality pentad criterion per capita gross national product (per capita GNP) per capita national income (per capita NI ) percentage percentage defective percentage diagram percentage distribution percentage error percentage of active applicants placed percentage of active job openings filled percentage point percentage standard deviation percentile percentile rank percolation process perfect correlation performance characteristic perinatal mortality rate period period analysis period of a state periodic process periodic transformation periodical fluctuation periodicity periodogram

Pearl-Read Pearson Pearson Pearson PearsonPearson Pearson-Durbin Pearson Pearson PearsonPearson Peek

periodogram analysis Perks' distributions permanence of small numbers permutation permutation distribution permutation tests perpetual test persistent null state persistent state personal income personal inquiry p-function phase phase confounded designs phase diagram phase function phenomena phenomenology phi -coefficient physiology statistics pictogram pictographs pie diagram piece-to-piece analysis piecewise regression pilot study pilot survey pilot test pin chart Pitman efficiency Pitman estimators Pitman-Morgan test Pitman's tests pivotal quantities Plackett's uniform distribution plaid squares planning of experiment planning-programmingbudgeting system (PPBS) platykurtic platykurtosis plot

PerksPerks p Pitman Pitman Pitman-Morgan Pitman PlackettPlackett

 Poisson beta distribution Poisson binomial distribution Poisson clustering process Poisson distribution Poisson exponential distribution Poisson index of dispersion Poisson normalizing transformation Poisson parameter Poisson probability distribution Poisson probability paper Poisson processes Poisson truncated normal distribution Poisson variation Poisson-LexisPoissonPoisson-Lexis distribution Lexis Poisson-Markov process - -Poisson-normal distribution Poisson-PascalPoissonPoisson-Pascal distribution Pascal Poisson's approximation Poisson's law of large numbers polar-wedge diagram policy variable point binomial distribution point biserial correlation point bivariate distribution point density point estimate point estimation point estimator point multinomial distribution point of control point of first entry point of indifference point of significance point of truncation point processes point sampling

Politz and Simmons technique poll Pollaczek-Khintchine formula Pollaczek's formula Pollaczek-Spitzer identity pollution prevention statistics Plya distribution Plya frequency function of order two Plya process Plya-Aeppli distribution Plya-Eggenberger distribution Plya's theorem polychoric correlation polygon frequency polykays polynomial hazard function models polynomial regression polynomial trend polyspectra polytomic table pooled estimate pooled sample variance pooled variance pooling of classes pooling of errors population population census population character statistics population de facto population de jure population density population distribution population estimate population frequency population mean population moment population parameter population percentile population proportion population registered population size

PolitzSimmons Pollaczek-Khintchine Pollaczek Pollaczek-Spitzer PlyaPlya Plya Plya Plya-AeppliPlyaAeppli Plya-Eggenberger Plya K ()

population standard deviation population statistics population variance positive association positive binomial distribution positive correlation positive definite positive hypergeometric distribution positive recurrent state positive skewness positively likelihood ratio dependent positively quadrant dependent post cluster sampling post enumeration survey postal services statistics posterior density function posterior distributions posterior probabilities posterior risk post-neonatal mortality rate potential defect potential GNP Potthoff's test power power curve power efficiency power function distribution power function revised power functions power law model power mean power moment power of a statistical test power of test power spectrum power sum precedence test precision precision aimed precision attained precision of estimator precision of measurements precision of sampling

Potthoff

pre-control predecessor-successor method predetermined variable predicted value predicted variable prediction prediction interval prediction limit predictive decomposition predictor pre-emptive discipline preference direction preference line preference table preference-field index number preferred acceptable quality level preferred sample preferred test prefix preliminary data preliminary experiment preliminary survey preliminary-test estimator pre-survey pre-test prevalence rate prevention action prevention cost preventive inspection preventive maintenance preventive maintenance time prevision prewhitening price compensation index price deflator price index price indices of exports price indices of farmers paid price indices of farmers received price indices of imports price statistics price survey price-relative

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primary data primary error primary factor primary hypothesis primary inputs primary record primary sample primary sampling unit primary survey primary table primary unit primitive period principal block principal components principal components analysis principal element principal moments principal-axis theorem principle of blocking principle of classification principle of confounding principle of duality principle of equal weights principle of equipartition principle of indeterminacy principle of indifference principle of invariance principle of least squares principle of optimality principle of parsimony principle of randomization principle of replication principle of stratification principle of subdivision principle of unbiasedness prior density function prior distributions prior parameter prior probabilities prior probability density priority queueing probabilistic information processing probability

probability calculus probability curve probability density probability density function (pdf) probability distribution probability distribution function probability element probability event probability field probability function probability generating function probability graph paper probability integral transformations probability interval probability law probability limits probability mass probability mass function (pmf) probability measure probability model probability moment probability of acceptance probability of cause probability of death probability of error probability of failure probability of rejection probability of success probability of survival probability paper probability plots probability proportional sampling probability proportional to size probability ratio test probability sample probability sampling probability set probability space probability surface probability theory probability unit probability vector probable boundary

probable error probit probit analysis probit regression probit regression line probit transformation procedural bias procedure chart process acceptance process analysis process average fraction defective process average quality process capability process capability analysis process capability chart process characteristic process control process control chart process data process distribution process inspection process level process limit process range process reaction curve process sampling process specification process standard deviation process surveillance process tolerance process variability process variable process variation analysis process with independent increments process with stationary increments processing error processing of data proclamation statistics procurement quality function produced income producer goods producer price indexes (PPI)

producer's A risk producer's B risk producer's costs survey producers' prices producer's risk (PR) producibility product acceptance product assurance product control product design product liability product limit distribution product limit estimator product measurable space product measure product moment product moment correlation product moment generating function product moment method product performance product probability function product probability space product quality product rating product specification product tolerance product tolerance requirement product variability production account production capacity production control production index production limit production line production planning production statistics productivity productivity statistics profile analysis profile curve profile graph profitability progress chart

A B

progressive average progressive total progressively censored sampling projection proper distribution property income proportional allocation proportional error proportional frequency proportional mean proportional sample proportional sampling proportional sub-class numbers proportional weight method proportionate mortality proprietor's income prospective studies provisions for the consumption of fixed capital proximity analysis proximity theorem pseudo pseudo random numbers pseudo-analytical graduation pseudo-correlation pseudo-factor pseudo-inverse pseudo-post-stratification pseudo-spectrum pseudovalues of the 'Jack-knife' psi-square statistic psi-weight p-statistics psychological probability psychological statistics psychometry public health statistics publication statistics purchasers' prices pure birth process pure error pure random process pure strategy

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purely discontinuous stochastic process purposive sample purposive sampling purposive selection putative error p-value Q-optimal discrete design Q-technique quad quadrant dependence quadrant sum test quadrat quadratic component quadratic contrast quadratic estimator quadratic forms quadratic interpolation quadratic loss function quadratic mean quadratic mean convergence quadratic programming quadratic response quadratic statistic quadratic term quadrature spectrum quadri-normal distribution quadruple table qualimetry qualitative qualitative characteristic qualitative classification qualitative data qualitative design variable qualitative forecasting qualitative series qualitative statistics qualitative variable quality quality assurance (QA) quality characteristic quality consciousness quality control (QC)

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quality control chart quality control chart for means quality control chart for percentages quality control circle (QCC) quality control manual quality cost quality data quality design quality engineering quality expectancy quality function quality guarante quality improvement quality improvement program quality index quality level quality loss quality management quality manager quality mindedness quality mission quality motivation quality movement quality objective quality of a lot quality policy quality program quality rating plan quality responsibility quality spiral quality standard quality survey quantal response quantile of order p quantile test quantiles quantitative quantitative characteristic quantitative classification quantitative classified table quantitative criterion quantitative data quantitative design variable

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quantitative forecasting quantitative precision quantitative response quantitative series quantitative statistics quantitative variable quantity quantity characteristic quantity index number quantity relative quantity variation method quantum hypothesis quantum index quantum index with fixed weights quantum index with moving anterior weights quantum index with moving current weights quantum statistical mechanics quartile quartile coefficient quartile coefficient of dispersion quartile deviation quartile deviation method quartile directions quartile measure of skewness quartile range quartile variation quartimax quartimin quasi quasi-compact cluster quasi-ergodic hypothesis quasi-factor quasi-factorial designs quasi-independence quasi-inverse matrix coefficients quasi-Latin square quasi-likelihood quasi-linear estimator quasi-Markov chain quasi-maximum likelihood estimator quasimedians

quasi-money quasi-normal equations quasi-random sampling quasi-ranges quasi-stable law quasi-static process quasi-sufficiency Quenouille's test questionnaires Quetelet's index queueing queueing discipline queueing length queueing principle queueing problem queueing processes quincunx quintiles quota quota sample quota sampling quotient regression R chart radix Radon-Nikodym derivative Radon-Nikodym theorem Raikov's theorem railway statistics raising factor random random allocation design random arrangement random arrival random assembly random balance designs random bifurcation random cause random component random digit random distribution random drawing random effects model random error

Quenouille R() Radon-Nikodym Radon-Nikodym Raikov

random event random experiment random factor random failure random failure period random fluctuation random function random impulse process random integration random interval random label random linear equation random linear graph random model random movement random normal scores test random numbers random numbers table random observation random occurrence random order random orthogonal transformations random path random permutation random perturbation random phenomena random process random sample random sample of size n random sampling random sampling error random sampling numbers random selection random series random shock form of time series random start random tessellations random unbiased sample random variable random variation random walks randomization randomization tests

randomized randomized block design randomized blocks randomized complete block design randomized decision function randomized experiment randomized fractional factorial designs randomized minimal sufficient statistic randomized model randomized response randomized sequential probability ratio test randomized strategy randomized tests randomly combined design randomness randomness of sequences range range chart range control chart range curve chart range of dispersion range of sample range square ratio test rank rank correlation rank correlation coefficient rank difference rank distribution rank order statistics rank statistic rank sum tests rank tests rank(s) in one-way layout rank(s) in regression ranked data ranking and selection problem ranking methods rankit rank-randomization tests Rao-Blackwell theorem Rao-Kupper model

Rao-Blackwell Rao-Kupper

Rao's scoring test rate of change rate of sampling rate of tax burdens rate of water-served population rating ratio ratio chart ratio delay method ratio diagram ratio estimators ratio of moving averages ratio of variances ratio scale ratio test ratio to trend method rational lot rational sample rational trend raw data raw material inspection raw moment raw score Rayleigh distribution Rayleigh tests real interest rate real national income real wage index realization receipt and outlays of treasury receiver's maximin principle receiving inspection reciprocal transformation recombination probability record records tests recovery of information recovery time recreation statistics rectangular association scheme rectangular distribution rectangular histogram rectangular lattice design

Rao RayleighRayleigh Rayleigh

rectification plan rectified index number rectifying inspection rectilinear correlation rectilinear trend rectilinearity recurrence game recurrence time recurrent events recurrent Markov chains recurrent state recursive system reduced design reduced double sampling reduced equations reduced form method reduced inspection reduced sample reduced sampling plan reduced variate reducible Markov chains reduction of data reduction process redundancy redundant system Reed-Mnch method reestimation reference lot reference period reference set reference standard reference table reflecting barrier reforested area statistics refusal rate regeneratvie processes region region of acceptance region of convergence region of doubt region of prognosis region of rejection region of significance

Reed-Mnch

regional difference index (RDI) regions register regressand regression regression analysis regression coefficients regression curve regression dependence regression design regression equation regression error regression estimate regression estimator regression function regression line regression models regression parameter regression plane regression sum of squares regression surface regression value regressor regret regular best asymptotically normal estimator regular estimator regular graph designs regular group divisible incomplete block designs regular Markov chain regular Markov renewal process regular model regular state regular stationary point process regularity conditions regularization reject lot reject test rejectable process level rejectable quality level rejected product rejection

rejection boundary rejection error rejection limit rejection line rejection region rejection zone rejective sampling related rate related regression relative accuracy relative area of transvariation relative bar chart relative deviation relative dispersion relative efficiency relative efficiency (of a sample design) relative efficiency (of an estimator) relative error relative frequency relative frequency density relative frequency distribution relative frequency scale relative humidity relative index relative information relative measure of dispersion relative method relative number relative potency relative precision relative price relative quantity relative range relative risk relative variance relaxed oscillation relevant failure reliability reliability allocation reliability analysis reliability apportionment reliability assessment

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reliability assurance reliability boundary reliability characteristics reliability coefficient reliability compliance test reliability data system reliability demonstration reliability demonstration test reliability design reliability engineer reliability engineering reliability evaluation reliability function reliability goal reliability growth reliability improvement reliability index reliability management reliability objective reliability of measurement reliability of statistics reliability organization reliability parameter reliability prediction reliability program reliability sampling plan reliability test reliable data reliability block diagram remarriage rate remission value renewal renewal distribution renewal equation renewal function renewal process renewal random variable renewal theorem renewal theory repair rate repair time repairable system repeated sampling

repeated survey repeated trials repeating pattern repetition repetitive group sampling plan replacement replacement cost replacement level replacement of employment replacement process replicate analysis replicated sampling replication repository table representative sample representative sampling reproducibility reproduction rate reproduction survival rate requirement resampling resampling procedures resemblance reserve money resident individual residual analysis residual effects residual equation residual error residual fluctuation residual mean square residual movement residual sum of squares residual treatment effect residual variance residual waiting time residuals residuation process residue resolution resolvable balanced incomplete block design resolvable designs

response response bias response error response metameter response surface response surface designs response surface experiment response time distribution response variance R-estimator restricted Bayes estimator restricted chi-square test restricted maximum likelihood estimator restricted randomization restricted sampling design restricted sequential procedure restriction error retail price index retail price survey retail trade retail valuation method retaliatory tariff retrospective sampling retrospective studies return period return states return time reversal designs reversal experiment reversal tests reversal trial reversibility reversible relation reversible transformation revised rates revision of specification Rhodes' distribution ridge regression right and wrong cases method right angular design right skewness right-sided test

R RhodesRhodes

right-tailed test risk analysis risk factor risk function risk of acceptance risk of rejection risk points risk set risk unbiasedness Robbins-Munro procedure robust estimation robust method robust statistical procedures robustness robustness of test rod-rows method Rohrer's index rolling average Room's squares root estimator root mean square deviation root mean square error rose diagram Rosenbaum's test rotatable designs rotation rotation sampling round off error 'Round Robin' design rounding rounding error route sampling routing maintenance roving inspection row and column designs row sum of squares row total R-statistic R-technique rth absolute moment rule of seven rule of sign ruling

Robbins-Munro Rohrer Room Rosenbaum Round Robin R RR r

run chart run length run sum test running fit runs runs above average runs below average runs down runs test runs up runs up and down rupture diagram rural consumer price index rural survey Rutherford's contagious distribution S chart S distribution safety factor safety margin salt-spray test sample sample average sample average standard error sample batch sample census sample correlation coefficient sample covariance sample cumulant sample defective sample design sample distribution function sample error sample fraction defective sample line sample mean sample mean deviation sample median sample moment sample number sample plan sample point sample product moment

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sample product sum sample proportion sample range sample ratio sample selection sample size sample size code letter sample space sample spectrum sample standard deviation sample surveys sample time point sample unit sample variability sample variance sampling sampling at random sampling bias sampling by attributes sampling by chance sampling by design sampling by variables sampling demonstrator sampling design sampling deviation sampling distribution sampling errors sampling experiment sampling fluctuation sampling fraction sampling frame sampling frequency sampling from nonstationary stochastic process sampling from stationary stochastic process sampling inspection sampling inspection by attributes sampling inspection by variables sampling inspection plans sampling inspection table sampling instruction sampling interval

sampling investigation sampling length sampling method sampling moment sampling on successive occasions sampling plans sampling procedure sampling rate sampling ratio sampling risk of acceptance sampling risk of rejection sampling scheme sampling standard sampling structure sampling survey sampling tabulation sampling technique sampling unit sampling variance sampling variation sampling verification sampling with probability proportionate to size sampling with replacement sampling without replacement saturated model saturation scale scale break scale designation scale equivariant estimator scale family scale guide line scale median scale number scale parameter scale point scale unit scatter scatter coefficient scatter diagram scatterance scedastic curve

scedasticity Schach's two-sample tests schedule scheduled maintenance Scheff's test Scheff's theorem scheme Schuster's periodogram Schwarz inequality science and technics statistics scissors movement scope score score sheet score statistics scoreboard scoring method scrap analysis screening designs screening experiment screening inspection screening process S-curve seasonal adjustment seasonal base seasonal fluctuation seasonal index seasonal unemployment seasonal variation second economy second kind of error second limit theorem second order minimaxity second order model second order stationary process second quartile secondary attack rate secondary constraint secondary data secondary diagonal secondary failure secondary investigation secondary maintenance

Schach Scheff Scheff Schuster Schwarz S

secondary process secondary rate secondary record secondary sample secondary sampling unit secondary source secondary standard secondary statistics secondary subscript secondary table secondary unit second-order spectrum section bar diagram sector accounts sector chart sector diagram sector index secular trend security statistics seemingly unrelated regression segmented regression selected points method selection by chance selection of risks selection with arbitrary probability selection with equal probability selection with probability proportional to size selective confidence interval selective value self-avoiding random walks self-conjugate Latin square self-conjugate standard square self-correcting sample self-correlation coefficient self-renewing aggregate self-weighting design self-weighting sample self-weighting semi-sample semi semi-average method semi-average trend line semi-closure

semi-continuous process semi-interquartile range semi-invariant semi-Latin squares semi-logarithmic chart semi-logarithmic paper semi-logarithmic scale semi-Markov processes semi-martingale semi-matrix semi-normal distribution semiparametric models semiparametric regression model semi-quartile semi-quartile range semi-range semi-sample semi-stable law semi-stationary process semi-invariant generating function sensitive test sensitivity sensitivity analysis sensitivity curve sensitivity data sensitivity of dispersion sensory characteristic sensory quality sensory test separable process separate ratio estimate separation point sequence sequence chart sequence fluctuation sequence of random variables sequential analysis sequential binomial sampling sequential chi-squared test sequential count test sequential decision sequential estimation sequential experimental design

sequential game sequential information inequality sequential life test sequential linear optimal design sequential method sequential probability ratio test (SPRT) sequential regression sequential sampling sequential sampling inspection plan sequential sampling plan sequential sign test sequential t test t sequential T2 test T2 sequential test sequential tolerance region serial cluster serial correlation serial correlation test serial design serial number serial sampling inspection schemes serial variation serially balanced sequence series series of attributes series of random variables series of variates series queues series system series table series-chain model series-parallel system series-seriation seriola service distribution service industry service payment of external debts service remuneration serviceability set function Sewall-Wright effect Sewall-Wright sex composition

sex distribution sex ratio shadow costs shadow economy shadow factor price Shah's criterion Shainin lot plot method shape parameter Shapiro-Wilk test share distribution share of market shared load parallel system shelf life Sheppard's corrections Sherman's test statistic Shewhart control chart Shewhart's normal bowl shift model shifting base period shock and error model shock models shop chart short cut methods 'Short' distribution short run production short term fluctuation short time change short time fluctuation short time trend shortest confidence intervals shortest path 'shorth' shot noise shrinkage estimators sickness survey Siegel-Tukey test Siegel-Tukey test of variance sigma field (-field) sigma unit sigma-additive (-additive) sigma-finite (-finite) sigmoid curve sign

Shah Shainin Shapiro-Wilk Sheppard Sherman Shewhart Shewhart 'Short' Siegel-Tukey Siegel-Tukey () () S

sign of operation sign of proportion sign of ratio sign tests signed rank test significance significance level significance of difference significance probability significance tests significant difference significant digit significant discrepancy significant figure significant zone silhouette chart silhouette excess and deficit chart similar action similar matrices similar regions similar tests similarity index simple abnormal curve simple aggregate index simple aggregate method simple aggregative price index number simple bar chart simple binomial sampling plan simple birth and death process simple block design simple cluster sampling simple consistency simple correlation simple event simple function simple hypothesis simple index simple interaction simple lattice design simple linear correlation simple linear least squares method simple linear regression model

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simple Markov process simple non-linear correlation simple random sampling simple random sample simple regression simple relative index simple sample simple table simplex centroid design simplex designs simplex method simplicity simulated measurement simulation simulation model simulator simultaneous confidence intervals simultaneous discrimination intervals simultaneous distributions simultaneous equations model simultaneous estimation simultaneous tolerance intervals simultaneous variance ratio test single decrement table single deflation single dotted map single factor theory single failure single limit interval single random sampling single sampling single sampling plan single specification limit single tabular form single tail test single variate statistics single-equation method single-sided test single-stage decision making single-stage sampling unit singly linked block design singular distribution singular linear least squares method

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singular matrix singular weighting designs sinusoidal limit theorem six point assay size size (of a test) size of a critical region size of a region size of population size of sample skeleton method skew correlation skew distribution skew regression skewed frequency distribution skewed population skewness skip free process skip-lot sampling plan Skitovich-Darmois theorem slanting control limit slanting control limit line slippage tests slope ratio assay sloping control limit Slutzky process Slutzky's equation Slutzky's theorem Slutzky-Yule effect small sample small sample inspection small sampling theory smallest order statistic S-method of multiple comparisons single factor theory Smirnov tests Smirnov-Birnbaum-Tingey distribution Smirnov's distribution smooth frequency curve smooth regression analysis

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smooth test smoothed bootstrap smoothing smoothing coefficient smoothing power smoothing process snap reading method snap sampling Snedecor's F-distribution snowball sampling social assistance statistics social equality indicator social index statistics social insurance statistics social ladder rating social security statistics social statistics social survey social welfare statistics social work statistics software reliability sojourn time solid diagram solid map solvability S-optimal design sorting sorting inspection sorting limit sorting operation source inspection source of data source table spacial distribution spacially homogeneous spacings sparse data sparse matrix spatial classification spatial distributions spatial estimator spatial models

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spatial point processes spatial series spatial systematic sample Spearman estimators Spearman test for correlation Spearman two-factor theorem Spearman-Brown formula Spearman-Krber method Spearman's coefficient of rank correlation (Spearman's ) Spearman's correlation coefficient special reduced inspection procedure species of Latin squares specific birth rate specific factor specific fertility rate specific rate specification specification band specification bias specification limit specification of quality specification standard specification tolerance specificity specified limit specimen spectral analysis spectral average spectral density spectral distribution function spectral function spectral weight function spectral window spectrum Spencer formula spent waiting time spherical distributions spherical mean direction spherical normal distribution spherical variance

Spearman Spearman Spearman Spearman-Brown Spearman-Krber SpearmanSpearma n Spearman Spencer

spherical variance function spherically symmetric distributions Spitzer's identity splicing spline approximation spline smoothing method split half method split plot confounding split plot design split test method split-block design split-plot arrangement split-plot method split-risk plan split-split plot design spoilage sporadic defect spottiness limit spotty unit spread spread of separation spurious correlation square square array square contingency square error asymptotic efficiency square error consistency square lattice square root transformation squared error loss function squariance stability condition stability test stabilization of variance stabilized p-chart stable distributions stable law stable operating conditions stable Paretian distributions stable population stable process stable state

Spitzer () ()P ParetoPareto

Stacy's distribution stagewise regression procedure stagflation staircase chart staircase design staircase distribution staircase method standard classification of commodities standard classification of education attainments and fields standard classification of industries standard classification of occupations standard classification of statistical areas standard classifications of statistics standard curve standard deviation standard equation standard error standard error of estimator standard fraction standard fraction defective standard Latin square standard level standard measure standard normal curve standard normal deviate standard normal distribution standard normal probability density function standard population standard score standardization standardized birth rate standardized death rate standardized deviate standardized divorce rate standardized index standardized marriage rate standardized mortality rate

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standardized random variable standardized regression coefficients standardized value standardized variate stand-by redundancy stand-by system stand-by time star-shaped ordering state of nature state of statistical control state point static data static demography static Leontief model static statistics stationarity stationarity assumption stationary distribution stationary Gaussian process stationary population stationary probability stationary processes stationary queue stationary renewal process stationary stochastic process stationary time series statistic statistical acceptance sampling statistical agencies statistical analysis statistical areas statistical association statistical characteristic statistical chart statistical computing method statistical control statistical curvature statistical data statistical data base statistical data base system statistical decision function statistical decision theory statistical dependence

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statistical description statistical design statistical diagram statistical expert system statistical figures statistical game statistical genetics statistical geography statistical graph statistical hypothesis statistical hypothesis testing statistical independence statistical induction statistical inference statistical information system statistical lot statistical map statistical measurement statistical mechanics statistical method statistical model statistical packages statistical pattern statistical planning statistical population statistical quality control (SQC) statistical regularity statistical sampling table statistical series statistical significance statistical standard statistical survey statistical symbol statistical table statistical theory statistical tolerance statistical tolerance analysis statistical tolerance interval statistical tolerance limit statistical tolerance region statistical unit statistical universe statistical variation

statistically equivalent block statistician statistics statistics law statistics of attributes statistics of crime statistics of damaged vessels statistics of mineral industry statistics of public finance statistics of tax statistics of trade statistics of traffic accidents statistics of variables steepest ascent method steepest descent method Stein two-stage confidence procedure Steiner's triple systems Stein's two sample procedure stem and leaf analysis step down procedure step interval step stress test step-by-step method Stephan's iterative process step-up procedure stepwise regression stepwise regression procedure 'STER' distribution stereogram s-test Stevens-Craig distribution stillbirth rate Stirling distributions Stirling's approximation Stirling's formula stochastic stochastic approach stochastic approximation procedure stochastic comparison of tests stochastic continuity stochastic convergence

Stein Steiner Stein Stephan 'STER' s Stevens-CraigStevensCraig StirlingStir-ling Stirling Stirling

stochastic definite stochastic dependence stochastic differentiability stochastic disturbance stochastic error stochastic functional equation stochastic independence stochastic integrability stochastic integral and differential equations stochastic kernel stochastic law of growth stochastic linear equation stochastic matrix stochastic model stochastic order stochastic paper stochastic processes stochastic programming stochastic transitivity stochastic variable stochastically decreasing stochastically increasing stochastically larger or smaller stochasticized stochastics stopping region stopping rules stopping times straight line basis straight line correlation straight line depreciation straight line trend strata chart strategy stratification stratification after selection stratified cluster sampling stratified multiple stage sampling stratified one stage sampling stratified purposive sample stratified purposive sampling stratified random sampling

stratified random sample stratified sample stratified sampling stratum stratum of nonrespondents stratum variance stream analysis strength distribution strength of a test stress distribution strictly convex function strictly dominated strictly;stationary process strong completeness strong law of large numbers strongly consistent estimator strongly distribution free strongly unimodal structural equation structural parameter structural unemployment structure structure function stub Student ratio studentization studentized augmented range studentized maximum absolute deviate studentized maximum modulus distribution studentized mean studentized range studentized range distribution Student's distribution Student's hypothesis Student's pair method Student's t-distribution Student's t-tests Sturges' rule subaggregate sub-class subexponential distributions

Student Student Student Student Student Student Student Student StudentStudent Student Student StudenttStudentt Studentt Sturges

sub-group confounded sub-heading subjective Bayes approach subjective index subjective probabilities subjectively trimmed mean submartingales sub-metropolitan subminimax subminimax minimal sufficient statistic sub-normal dispersion sub-Poisson distribution sub-population Subrahmaniam's generalized contagious distribution subsample subsampling subscript subsidiary factor substantial variation substitute F-ratio substitute sample substitute t-ratio substratification sub-sub-sampling subterranean economy sub-total successive difference statistic successive range successive survey sudden failure sufficiency sufficient estimator sufficient partition sufficient statistics suffix Sukhatme d-statistic Sukhatme's test sum of normal variates sum of residuals sum of squares for fixed factors sum of squares for random factors

SubrahmaniamS ubrahmaniam F t Sukhatmed Sukhatme

sum of squares of residuals summary table superefficiency superexponential distribution superfluous variable supermartingales supernormal dispersion supernormal distribution super-Poisson distribution superpopulation superposed process superposed variation superposition or linear diffusion method supersaturated designs superscript supplementary information supplemented balance supply delay time support sure event surface chart surface diagram surprise index surprise stratum technique survey survey analysis survey design survey method survey unit survival analysis survival characteristic curve survival function survival probability survival rate survival time survivor function switch-back switch-back designs switching procedure symmetric circular distribution symmetric density symmetric design

symmetric determinant symmetric distribution symmetric error symmetric estimation method symmetric factorial design symmetric functions symmetric matrix symmetric minor symmetric pairs symmetric sampling symmetric stable law symmetric test symmetrical unequal block arrangement symmetrization symmetry sympathy effect synthetic data synthetic sampling system analysis system configuration system effectiveness system engineering system failure rate system of national accounts system of normal equations system of oscillators system recall procedures system reliability systematic systematic bias systematic cumulative error systematic designs systematic error systematic function systematic sample systematic sampling systematic square systematic statistic systematic variable systematic variation table for range table lookup

table of cumulative frequency distribution table of frequency distribution table of random numbers tables for runs taboo probability taboo state tabulation system tabular form tabular investigation tabular presentation tabular statement tabulating error tabulation tabulation of data tail tail area tail behavior tail distribution Takcs process tally tandem queues tandem tests tantiles target population tax revenue tax statistics taxable income brackets Taylor's theorem Tchebychev-Hermite polynomials Tchebychev's inequality T-distribution t-distribution technical error technometry telecommunication statistics telegraph statistics telemetry telephone statistics temporal classification temporal correlation temporally continuous process temporally homogeneous process

Takcs n Taylor Tchebychev-Hermite Tchebychev TT tt

temporary standard tentative standard term terminal decision Terry-Hoeffding test Terry's test test test accuracy test coefficient test data test for independence test for kurtosis test for normality test for skewness test for symmetry test for unequal variances test function test method test of chi-square test of goodness of fit test of homogeneity test of independence test of runs test of significance test of significant difference test of smoothness test of statistical hypothesis test panel test precision test procedure test specification test statistic test survey testing error testing hypothesis testing linear hypothesis testing of statistical hypothesis tests of normality tetrachoric correlation tetrachoric function tetrad difference Theil's inequality coefficient Theil's mixed regression estimator

Terry-Hoeffding Terry Theil Theil

theorem theoretical distribution theoretical error theoretical frequencies theoretical mean theoretical mode theoretical moment theoretical probability theoretical statistics theoretical variable theory of regression theory of approximation theory of estimation theory of games theory of large samples theory of probability theory of reliability theory of sampling theory of sampling distribution theory of small samples theory of testing of hypotheses Thiele's semi-invariant third quartile Thomas distribution Thompson's rule Thorndike chart three dimensional lattice three point assay three series theorem three-dimensional projection charts three-sigma limits three-sigma rule three-stage cluster sampling three-stage least squares three-way classification three-way layout threshold parameter tick system ticket sampling tied double change over design tied ranks ties ties in data

Thiele ThomasThomas Thompson Thorndike

tightened inspection tilling time antithesis time between failures (TBF) time chart time comparability factor time constant time constraint for maintenance time distribution time domain time factor time fluctuation time interval time lag time parameter time reversal test time series time series analysis time series chart time series cross-section analysis time series model time series prediction time to failure time to repair time-dependent covariates time-dependent failure time-distance curve t-like statistic T-method for contrasts T-method for differences T-method of multiplecomparisons tolerance tolerance analysis tolerance distribution tolerance factor tolerance fraction defective tolerance intervals tolerance limits tolerance number of defects tolerance range Tong's inequality ton-KMS total

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total association total available resources total correlation total cumulation total disposable means total factor productivity index total fertility rate total floor area total frequency total index number total inspection total inspection curve total movement rate total operating time total population increase rate total probability total quality control (TQC) total regression total regression coefficient total sum of squares total suspended particulates total time on test total variance total variation total-time-on-test transformation tourism statistics trade-off traffic intensity transaction standard index transcription transfer function transfer income transformation approximation to distribution transformation of correlation coefficient transformation of variables transformation set of Latin squares transformations transformations of random vectors transient response transient state transition probabilities

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transitive group of transformations transitive transformation group transitivity decision making translation invariant translation model translation of questionnaires translation of time translation parameter transportation and communications statistics transportation;storage and communications transportation;storage and communications statistics transposed matrix transvariation t-ratio distribution treasury receipts and outlays statistics treatment combinations treatment comparisons treatment contrasts treatment effects treatment effects linear model treatment mean square treatments treble table tree diagram trend trend chart trend curve trend fitting trend line trend projection trend value trend-cycle curve seasonal adjustment trial trial and error (method) trial control limit trial evidence triangle test triangular (singly or doubly) linked blocks

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triangular association scheme triangular design triangular distribution triangular multiply linked block design trichotomy trigamma function trilinear charts trimmed mean trimming trinomial distribution triple comparisons triple interaction triple lattice triple lattice design triple table trivariate trivariate regression trivial solution trough true average true class limit true correlation true error true mean true mode true process average true regression true standard deviation truncated data truncated D-criteria truncated distribution truncated D-optimal design truncated double sampling truncated life test truncated normal distribution truncated normal mean truncated Poisson distribution

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truncated sample size sequential analysis truncated sequential games truncated sequential procedures

truncated SPRT truncation truncation and censorship T-score t-statistics T-test t-tests Tukey statistic Tukey's gap test Tukey's g-test Tukey's model Tukey's pocket test Tukey's q-test Tukey's quick test Tukey's table Tukey's test turning point twinned distributions two sample t-test two sided test two stage sample two variable linear regression two-by-two frequency tables two-dimensional blocking two-dimensional lattice two-dimensional lattice design two-factor analysis two-factor interaction two-factor theory two-person zero-sum game two-point distribution two-sample experiments two-sample location family two-sample problem two-sample test two-segment method two-sided specification two-sided truncation two-sigma limits two-stage least squares two-stage random sampling two-stage sample two-stage sampling

T t T t Tukey Tukey Tukeyg Tukey Tukey Tukeyq Tukey Tukey Tukey t

two-stage sampling unit two-tailed test two-way classification two-way layout two-way stratification type type A distirubtion type A OC curve type A region type A series type B distribution type B OC curve type B region type B series type bias type C distribution type C region type C series type crossing type D region type E region type I and II probabilities type I censoring type I distribution type I error type I sampling type II censoring type II distribution type II error type II sampling type III distribution type III error type IV distribution type IX distribution type one counter model type two counter model type V distribution type VI distribution type VII distribution type VIII distribution type X distribution type XI distribution type XII distribution

AA AOC A A B BOC B B C C C D E

types of distributions types of populations typical characteristic typical measure typical period typical seasonal pattern typical values typical year U chart U distribution 'U' statistics U test U.N. system of national accounts U2Ntest U-estimable ultimate class ultimate cluster ultimate factor correlation methods ultimate unit unadjusted data unadjusted moment unavoidable cause unbalanced error unbalanced random effects model (Model II) unbiased unbiased confidence intervals unbiased critical region unbiased critical region of type A unbiased critical region of type B unbiased critical region of type C unbiased decision rule unbiased design unbiased error unbiased estimating equation unbiased estimation unbiased estimator unbiased estimator of correlation coefficient unbiased most powerful test unbiased sample unbiased tests unbiasedness

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unbiasedness in estimation uncertainty uncertainty probability uncertainty relation uncertainty sample survey uncontrolled variability uncorrelated uncorrelated random variables uncurtailed sampling inspection under control underemployment underestimation underground economy underidentification underlying trend underreporting nonsampling errors unemployed persons unemployment rate unemployment statistics unequal subclasses unequal weights unexplained variance unfavorable case ungrouped data ungrouped fruquency distribution unidentifiable uniform discrete distributions uniform distributions uniform goodness of fit uniform life tables uniform prior distribution uniform probability distribution uniform random numbers uniform sampling fraction uniform scores test uniform spectrum uniformity trials uniformization uniformly best constant risk (UBCR) estimator uniformly best distance power (UBDP) test uniformly best estimator

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uniformly best test uniformly better decision function uniformly minimum risk uniformly minimum variance unbiased estimator (UMVUE) uniformly most accurate uniformly most accurate (UMA) confidence bounds uniformly most powerful (UMP) test uniformly most powerful critical region uniformly most powerful unbiased (UMPU) test unilateral index number unilateral tolerance unimodal unimodal distribution unimodality union intersection principle unique factor unique factor bilinear method unique starting distribution uniqueness uniqueness of admissible estimator uniqueness of Bayes estimator unit distribution unit heterogeneity unit labor cost index unit normal distribution unit normal variate unit of value unit quantity unit sample unit sequential sampling unit stage sampling unit value index unit variance unitary distribution unitary sampling unitary uniform distribution unitemporal model univariate distribution universality universe

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universe average universe dispersion universe mean universe standard deviation universe variance unknown sigma variables plan unlike signed correlation unlikelihood ratio unmarried rate unnatural pattern unoffical economy unrecorded economy unreduced designs unreduced form unreliability unrestricted random sample unrestricted sampling unsatisfactory product cost unscheduled maintenance unsolvability unstable distribution unstable mixture unsymmetrical untruncated unweighted average unweighted index number unweighted means method unweighted weight up and down method up-cross upper bound upper boundary upper confidence bound (UCB) upper confidence interval upper confidence limit upper control limit (UCL) upper decision line (UDL) upper group upper limit upper quartile upper specification limit (USL) up-time up-time ratio

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upward adjustment upward bias upward cumulation urbanized areas U-shaped curve U-shaped density U-shaped distribution U-shaped hazard function Uspensky's inequality utility utility curve utility function utility index utility indifference curve utilization rate of factory equipments vague prior distribution vague prior probability valid prediction validation validity value analysis (VA) value engineering (VE) value index value index number value of a game value ratio index number value-added value-added method Van Der Waerden's test 'vanity' effect variability variable variable acceptance sampling variable control limit variable data variable error variable lot size plan variable measurement variable probability variable sampling variable sampling fraction variable sampling plan variable selection procedure

U U U U Uspensky Van Der Waerden

variable testing variable weight variables control chart variables inspection variance variance analysis variance between clusters variance components variance error variance function variance of estimator variance ratio variance ratio distribution variance ratio test variance -stabilization correlation method variance stabilizing transformations variance within clusters variance-covariance matrix variance-to-mean ratio variant variate variate difference correlation variate difference method variate transformation variation variation between classes variation flow analysis variation of quality variation of sign variation of squares variation stabilization correlation method variation within classes variation within samples varimax varimax method variogram Vasicek entropy-based test of normality vector alienation coefficient vector correlation

Vasicek

vector correlation coefficient vector-valued estimator vector-valued location parameter vector-valued normal mean vector-valued sample mean vendee vendor vendor inspection vendor quality Venn diagram verification vernier vertical bar chart vital index vibration test violent crime rate virtual waiting time process visible underemployment visual inspection vital statistics V-mask VN test vocational training volume chart volume index volume of household volume of world trade von Mises distribution von Neumann's ratio 'W' statistic 'W' test for normality W2N test wage index wage rate wage statistics wage structure survey wage unit wage-incentive wage-rate system WAGR test waiting line waiting times waiting-time distributions

Venn VV VN von Misesvon Mises von Neumann W W W2N () WAGR

Wald distribution Wald's classification statistic Wald's conditions Wald's fundamental identity Wald-Wolfowitz runs test Wald-Wolfowitz test Walker probability function war standard Waring distribution warning control limits warranty period Watson's ' U' statistic Watson's U2N test Watson-Williams' test weak convergence weak generalized inverse matrix weak law of large numbers weakest-link model weakly stationary process wear-out period wedge plans Weibull distribution Weibull probability paper Weibull probability plot Weibull regression model weighing designs weight weight base weight bias weight crossing weight error weight function weight load factor (%) weight method weighted aggregate index number weighted arithmetic mean weighted average weighted battery weighted composite relative index number weighted geometric mean weighted index number weighted least squares

WaldWald Wald Wald Wald Wald-Wolfowitz Wald-Wolfowitz Walker WaringWaring Watson'U' WatsonU2N Watson-Williams WeibullWeibull Weibull Weibull Weibull () ()

weighted linear regression weighted mean weighted moving average weighted observations weighted squared error loss function weighted sum of squares weighting weighting coefficient weighting design weighting factor weighting method weighting of index numbers weighting sampling Westenberg's interquartile range test white noise Whittaker periodogram Whittle distribution wholesale price index wholesale price index number wholesale statistics wholesale trade wide-sense stationary wide-sense stationary time series width of class Wiener process Wiener-Hopf technique Wiener-Khintchine theorem Wilcoxon confidence interval Wilcoxon midrank Wilcoxon rank sum test Wilcoxon signed rank Wilcoxon signed rank test Wilcoxon statistic Wilcoxon-Pitman efficiency Wilcoxon's test wild observations Wilks' criterion Wilks' empty cell test Wilks' internal scatter Wilks-Lawley U statistic Wilks-Rosenbaum tests willful errors Wilson-Hilferty transformation

Westenberg () Whittaker WhittleWhittle Wiener Wiener-Hopf Wiener-Khintchine Wilcoxon Wilcoxon Wilcoxon Wilcoxon Wilcoxon Wilcoxon Wilcoxon-Pitman Wilcoxon Wilks Wilks Wilks Wilks-LawleyU Wilks-Rosenbaum Wilson-Hilferty

window Winsorized estimation Winsorized sample variance Wishart distribution with replacement within class variance within sample variation within-group variance without replacement Wn-statistic Wold's decomposition theorem Wold's Markov process of intervals Wolfowitz minimum distance method Woodbury distribution working hours working hypothesis working life working mean working probit wrapped Cauchy distribution wrapped distributions wrapped Normal distribution wrapped Poisson distribution W-test X chart X difference chart Yates' correction; Yates method Yates-Grundy estimator Youden design Youden rectangle Youden squares Yule distribution Yule process Yule's equation Yule's hyperbolic distribution Yule-Walker equations Z-chart z-distribution z-score z-test

Winsor Winsor WishartWishart Wn Wold Wold Wolfowitz WoodburyWoodbury W X X Yates Yates Yates-Grundy Youden Youden Youden YuleYule Yule Yule YuleYule Yule-Walker Z zz z z

z-transformation Zelen's inequalities zero corrlation zero defects(ZD) zero defects program zero frequency zero line zero point zero skewness zero sum game zero sum problem zeta distribution zigzag form zigzag sampling Zipf's law zonal polynomials zonal sampling zone chart zone curve zone curve chart zone of acceptance zone of indifference zone of preference zone of preference for acceptance zone of preference for rejection zone of rejection

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