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- Paired difference testType of location test in statistical analysis
- Pairwise comparison (psychology)Process of comparing two entities to determine preference
- Paley constructionIn mathematics, the Paley construction is a method for constructing Hadamard matrices usin
- Panel dataLongitudinal statistical study
- Pao-Lu HsuPao-Lu Hsu or Xu Baolu (simplified Chinese: 许宝𫘧; traditional Chinese: 許寶騄; pinyin: Xǔ Bǎo
- Parallel coordinatesChart displaying multivariate data
- Parametric statisticsBranch of statistics
- Pareto chartType of chart
- Partial autocorrelation functionPartial correlation of a time series with its lagged values
- Partial correlationConcept in probability theory and statistics
- Partial least squares path modelingThe partial least squares path modeling or partial least squares structural equation model
- Partial least squares regressionStatistical method
- Partial regression plotType of plot in applied statistics
- Participation biasType of bias
- Particle filterType of Monte Carlo algorithms for signal processing and statistical inference
- Partition of sums of squaresConcept that permeates much of inferential statistics and descriptive statistics
- Path analysis (statistics)Statistical term
- Paul Meier (statistician)American biostatistician
- Pearson correlation coefficientMeasure of linear correlation
- Pearson's chi-squared testEvaluates how likely it is that any difference between data sets arose by chance
- Peirce's criterionIn robust statistics, Peirce's criterion is a rule for eliminating outliers from data sets
- Per Martin-LöfSwedish logician, philosopher, and mathematical statistician
- Percentage pointUnit for the arithmetic difference of two percentages
- PercentileStatistic which divides a data set into 100 parts and analyzes it as a percentage
- Percentile rankStatistic of a given score
- Performance engineeringPerformance engineering encompasses the techniques applied during a systems development li
- Permutation testExact statistical hypothesis test
- Permutational analysis of varianceStatistical test
- Phase-type distributionProbability distribution
- Philip HauserAmerican sociologist (1909–1994)
- Philosophy of statisticsThe philosophy of statistics is the study of the mathematical, conceptual, and philosophic
- Piecewise-deterministic Markov processIn probability theory, a piecewise-deterministic Markov process (PDMP) is a process whose
- Placebo-controlled studyType of medical experiment
- Plackett–Burman designType of experimental design
- Plot (graphics)Graphical technique for data sets
- Poisson binomial distributionProbability distribution
- Poisson-Dirichlet distributionDefinition and first properties of the Poisson-Dirichlet distributions
- Polyharmonic splineIn applied mathematics, polyharmonic splines are used for function approximation and data
- Polynomial and rational function modelingIn statistical modeling (especially process modeling), polynomial functions and rational f
- Polynomial regressionStatistics concept
- Pooled varianceMethod for estimating variance of several different populations
- Population proportionParameters which denote fractions of populations, usually as a percentage
- Population without double countingEnglish translation of a French phrase
- Positive and negative predictive valuesStatistical measures of whether a finding is likely to be true
- Post hoc analysisStatistical analyses that were not specified before the data were seen
- Posterior predictive distributionDistribution of new data marginalized over the posterior
- Power (statistics)Term in statistical hypothesis testing
- Power lawFunctional relationship between two quantities
- Power transformFamily of functions to transform data
- Pre- and post-test probabilityProbabilities of the presence of a condition
- Precision (statistics)Reciprocal of the statistical variance
- Precision and recallPattern-recognition performance metrics
- PredictionStatement about a future event
- Predictive analyticsStatistical techniques analyzing facts to make predictions about unknown events
- Predictive modellingForm of modelling that uses statistics to predict outcomes
- Preregistration (science)Scientific practice
- Prescription monitoring programIn the United States, prescription monitoring programs (PMPs) or prescription drug monitor
- Prescriptive analyticsForm of business analytics offering future decision options
- PrevalenceNumber of disease cases in a given population at a specific time
- Principal component regressionStatistical technique
- Principle of indifferenceIn probability theory, a rule for assigning epistemic probabilities
- Prison Policy InitiativeThe Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) is a criminal justice oriented American public policy t
- Probabilistic classificationMachine learning problem
- Probabilistic designDiscipline within engineering design
- Probabilistic forecastingType of statistical forecasting
- Probabilistic logicApplications of logic under uncertainty
- Probabilistic programmingSoftware system for statistical models
- Probability distribution fittingMathematical concept
- Probability measureMeasure of total value one, generalizing probability distributions
- Probability-proportional-to-size samplingIn survey methodology
- Probit modelStatistical regression where the dependent variable can take only two values
- Profiling (information science)Creation and use of user profiles via data analysis
- Propagation of uncertaintyEffect of variables' uncertainties on the uncertainty of a function based on them
- Propensity probabilityInterpretation of probability
- Propensity score matchingStatistical matching technique
- Proportional hazards modelClass of statistical survival models
- Public Use Microdata AreaA Public Use Microdata Area (PUMA) is a geographic unit used by the US Census for providin
- Pythagorean meansClassical averages studied in ancient Greece