maximum likelihood statistics
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broader: statistics

interaction (statistics)
type: Concept
broader: statistics

cancer and society
type: Concept
narrower: statistics

absenteeism statistics
type: Concept
broader: statistics

Bayesian statistics
type: Concept
broader: statistics

sampling
type: Concept
broader: statistics

mathematics
type: Concept
narrower: statistics

nonparametric statistics
type: Concept
broader: statistics

statistical mathematics
type: Concept
broader: statistics

hierarchical linear models
type: Concept
broader: statistics

concepts
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least squares statistics
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broader: statistics

statistics
type: Concept
narrower: interaction (statistics)
narrower: hierarchical linear models
narrower: Bayesian statistics
narrower: nonparametric statistics
narrower: absenteeism statistics
narrower: maximum likelihood statistics
narrower: statistical mathematics
narrower: least squares statistics
narrower: sampling
broader: mathematics
broader: cancer and society
definition: Statistics is divided into two categories: descriptive and inferential. The objective of descriptive statistics is to describe or summarize the properties of data that a researcher has collected. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods; Statistics]