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Statistical Abstract of the United States — The Statistical Abstract of the United States is a publication of the United States Census Bureau, an agency of the United States Department of Commerce. Published annually since 1878, the statistics describe social and economic conditions in the …   Wikipedia

Statistical semantics — is the study of how the statistical patterns of human word usage can be used to figure out what people mean, at least to a level sufficient for information access (Furnas, 2006). How can we figure out what words mean, simply by looking at… …   Wikipedia

Statistical epidemiology — is an emerging branch of the disciplines of epidemiology and biostatistics that aims to: * Bring more statistical rigour to bear in the field of epidemiology * Recognise the importance of applied statistics, especially with respect to the context …   Wikipedia

Statistical parsing — is a group of parsing methods within natural language processing. The methods have in common that they associate grammar rules with a probability. Grammar rules are traditionally viewed in computational linguistics as defining the valid sentences …   Wikipedia

Statistical survey — Statistical surveys are used to collect quantitative information about items in a population. Surveys of human populations and institutions are common in political polling and government, health, social science and marketing research. A survey… …   Wikipedia

Abstract labour and concrete labour — Part of a series on Marxism …   Wikipedia

Statistical potential — In protein structure prediction, a statistical potential (also knowledge based potential, empirical potential, or residue contact potential) is an energy function derived from an analysis of known structures in the Protein Data Bank. Typical… …   Wikipedia

Statistical syllogism — A statistical syllogism is an inductive syllogism. Statistical syllogisms may use qualifying words like most , frequently , almost never , rarely , etc., or may have a statistical generalization as one or both of their premises. For example:… …   Wikipedia

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is published by the American Psychiatric Association and provides a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders. It is used in the United States… …   Wikipedia

Comparison of statistical packages — The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of statistical analysis packages. Contents 1 General information 2 Operating system support 3 ANOVA 4 Regression …   Wikipedia

POPULATION — THE JEWISH POPULATION Growth by Aliyah In 1882 the Jewish population of Ereẓ Israel numbered some 24,000, roughly 5% of the total, and about 0.3% of the world Jewish population. Since then there has been an almost continuous flow of aliyah, which …   Encyclopedia of Judaism