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- Sample maximum and minimumGreatest and least values in a statistical data sample
- Sampling biasBias in the sampling of a population
- Sampling distributionProbability distribution of the possible sample outcomes
- Samuel S. WilksSamuel Stanley Wilks (June 17, 1906 – March 7, 1964) was an American mathematician and aca
- SAS (software)Statistical software
- ScagnosticsScagnostics (scatterplot diagnostics) is a series of measures that characterize certain pr
- Scale parameterStatistical measure
- Scaled inverse chi-squared distributionProbability distribution
- Science of science policyScience of science policy (SoSP) is an emerging interdisciplinary research area that seeks
- Scientific controlMethods employed to reduce error in science tests
- ScientometricsQuantitative study of science
- Scientometrics (journal)Scientometrics is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of scientome
- Score testStatistical test based on the gradient of the likelihood function
- SeasonalityVariations in data at specific regular intervals less than a year
- Secondary researchSummary of research
- Secretary problemMathematical problem involving optimal stopping theory
- Seemingly unrelated regressionsConcept in statistical mathematics
- Segmentation-based object categorizationThe image segmentation problem is concerned with partitioning an image into multiple regio
- Segmented regressionConcept in statistical mathematics
- Selection biasBias in a statistical analysis due to non-random selection
- Self-selection biasType of sampling bias
- Selma Fine GoldsmithAmerican economic statistician
- SemimartingaleIn probability theory, a real valued stochastic process X is called a semimartingale if it
- Semiparametric regressionRegression models that combine parametric and nonparametric models
- Sensitivity and specificityStatistical measure of a binary classification
- Sentiment analysisTextual emotion detection method
- Sequential probability ratio testThe sequential probability ratio test (SPRT) is a specific sequential hypothesis test, dev
- Sergei BernsteinSoviet mathematician
- Seven basic tools of qualityFixed set of visual exercises for troubleshooting issues related to quality
- Seven states of randomnessExtensions of the concept of randomness
- Seven-number summaryIn descriptive statistics, the seven-number summary is a collection of seven summary stati
- Shapiro–Wilk testTest of normality in frequentist statistics
- Sign testStatistical test with teststatistic the number of signs of one type
- Similarity measureReal-valued function that quantifies similarity between two objects
- Singular spectrum analysisNonparametric spectral estimation method
- Six SigmaBusiness process improvement technique
- Sliding DFTRecursive algorithm in applied mathematics
- Slum clearance in the United KingdomSlum clearance in the United Kingdom has been used as an urban renewal strategy to transfo
- Small multipleVisualization technique for multivariate data
- SmoothingFitting an approximating function to data
- Social statisticsUse of statistical measurement systems to study human behavior in a social environment
- Somers' DMeasure of ordinal association
- SparklineSmall data visualisation, usually inline with text
- Spatial analysisTechniques to study geometric data
- Spatial distributionIn statistics
- Spectral clusteringClustering methods
- Spotlight effectThe spotlight effect is the psychological phenomenon by which people tend to believe they
- SPSSStatistical analysis software
- Spurious relationshipApparent, but false, correlation between causally-independent variables
- Squared deviations from the meanCalculations in probability theory
- Stable processIn probability theory, a stable process is a type of stochastic process. It includes stoch
- Standard probability spaceType of probability space
- Standard scoreHow many standard deviations apart from the mean an observed datum is
- StataStatistical software package
- Stationary processClass of stochastic process
- StatisticSingle measure of some attribute of a sample
- Statistical benchmarkingMethod of using auxiliary information for better results
- Statistical classificationCategorization of data using statistics
- Statistical data typeTaxonomy of statistical data elements
- Statistical dispersionStatistical property quantifying how much a collection of data is spread out
- Statistical distanceDistance between two statistical objects
- Statistical graphicsImages used to represent statistical data visually
- Statistical learning theoryFramework for machine learning
- Statistical literacyAbility to understand and reason with statistics and data
- Statistical Methods for Research Workers1925 statistics book by Ronald Fisher
- Statistical parameterQuantity that indexes a parametrized family of probability distributions
- Statistical process controlMethod of quality control
- Statistical proofStatistical proof is the rational demonstration of degree of certainty for a proposition,
- Statistical randomnessQuality of a numerical sequence of having no recognizable patterns
- Statistical theoryTheory of statistics
- Statistical unitIndividual entity for statistical purposes
- StatisticianPerson who works with theoretical or applied statistics
- Statistics educationPractice of teaching statistics
- Step detectionStatistical method
- Stephen StiglerAmerican statistician
- StochasticRandomly determined process
- Stochastic differential equationDifferential equations involving stochastic processes
- Stochastic gradient descentOptimization algorithm
- Stochastic variance reduction(Stochastic) variance reduction is an algorithmic approach to minimizing functions that ca
- Stratified samplingSampling from a population which can be partitioned into subpopulations
- Structural breakEconometric term
- Structural equation modelingForm of causal modeling that fit networks of constructs to data
- Structural Equation Modeling (journal)Structural Equation Modeling is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing methodologic
- StudentizationIn statistics, Studentization, named after William Sealy Gosset, who wrote under the pseud
- Studentized range distributionIn probability and statistics, studentized range distribution is the continuous probabilit
- Studentized residualKind of ratio
- Sufficient statisticStatistical principle
- Summary statisticsType of statistics
- Supervised learningMachine learning paradigm
- Support (mathematics)Inputs for which a function's value is non-zero
- Support vector machineSet of methods for supervised statistical learning
- Surrogate dataTime series data technique
- Surrogate data testingSurrogate data testing (or the method of surrogate data) is a statistical proof by contrad
- Survey samplingStatistical selection process
- Survival analysisBranch of statistics
- Survival functionProbability of survival beyond any specified time
- Survivorship biasStatistical error from focusing on successes over failures
- Synthetic dataAlgorithmically generated data that have a similar distribution as sampled data
- System identificationStatistical methods to build mathematical models of dynamical systems from measured data
- System safetyThe system safety concept calls for a risk management strategy based on identification, an
- Systematic reviewComprehensive review of research literature using systematic methods
- Systematic samplingStatistical method for surveys