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Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group, whose aim is:

To improve Wikipedia's coverage of statistics and the organization of information and articles on this topic.

This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to do lists below.

This WikiProject covers articles related to statistics, including the history of statistics and biographies of statisticians. Articles within its scope include those in:

An expandable tree view of subcategories of Category:Statistics is available at CategoryTree->Statistics.

As of 2 November 2025, there are 5,422 articles within the scope of WikiProject Statistics, of which 3 are featured and 22 are good articles. This makes up 0.08% of the articles on Wikipedia, 0.03% of all featured articles and lists, and 0.05% of all good articles. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 10,844 pages in the project. Approximately 48% of the articles in the scope of this project have been marked as requiring some form of attention.

The list of statistics topics is being extended to include existing articles not previously listed and any new or unlisted statistics-related articles should be added. The list contains 2642 items, including some redirects (17 October 2011: was 2233 on 29 July 2009: was 1731 on 31 December 2008: was 945 on 22 May 2008). The list is not at present very sophisticated and this project could undertake general improvements given that lists are far more versatile than categories. Look at list of mathematics articles and lists of mathematics topics.

Some priority articles that the project hopes to make progress with are those in:

Guidelines

Here are general guidelines for different types of articles in the project.

  • Consider adding one of these navigational boxes to the end of the article:
  • Add {{WPStatistics}} to the article's discussion page
  • Tag the discussion page with
{{maths rating|field=probability and statistics | importance= | class=}}
using appropriate values for the class and importance parameters as described here.

General statistics articles

Probability distributions

Biographies of statisticians

Participants

Please feel free to add (or delete) your name below, and to indicate any areas of particular interest. You may also wish to add {{User WikiProject Statistics}} to your User page, which will add your name to Category:WikiProject Statistics members.

The first eleven names below are of those who signed up during the initial discussion on WikiProject Council/Proposals, as archived at /Proposal.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Statistics.
  1. Qwfp (talk · contribs) 10:21, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Salix alba (talk · contribs) 18:43, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  3. O18 (talk · contribs) 00:31, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Baccyak4H (talk · contribs) 02:31, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Tayste (talk · contribs) 05:09, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Petergans (talk · contribs) 07:55, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Michael Hardy (talk · contribs) 20:12, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Melcombe (talk · contribs) 16:59, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Btyner (talk · contribs) 02:20, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Coppertwig (talk · contribs) 22:50, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Avenue (talk · contribs) 01:55, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  12. EdJohnston (talk · contribs) 04:06, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Zvika (talk · contribs) 17:21, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  14. Billjefferys (talk · contribs) 22:12, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Shanbhag.rohan (talk · contribs)
  16. Statprof (talk · contribs) 15:15, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  17. Fangz (talk · contribs) 15:26, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  18. Bluemaster (talk · contribs) 13:51, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  19. Doncram (talk · contribs) 23:57, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  20. Avraham (talk · contribs) 02:43, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  21. Wolf87 (talk) 01:55, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  22. --Aredgers (talk) 23:10, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  23. Intersofia (talk · contribs)15:19, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  24. Robek2020 (talk · contribs)12:56, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  25. skbkekas (talk · contribs)
  26. Aetheling (talk · contribs) 15 June 2009
  27. Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk · contribs) 25 June 2009
  28. stpasha (talk ≠ contribs) 1st July 2009
  29. Hanspi (talk) 06:03, 25 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  30. Rlendog (talk) 03:10, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  31. Cordless Larry (talk · contribs) - interested in the institutional aspects of statistics, e.g. censuses, national statistical offices. 15:31, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  32. kjetil1001 (talk · contribs) --Kjetil Halvorsen 22:29, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  33. Mike409 (talk · contribs) 11:22, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  34. P64 (talk) 20:58, 12 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  35. Paul Scheer (talk · contribs) 21:29, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  36. Adrian Pollock (talk) 21:24, 11 September 2010 (UTC) (Struggling to learn to use some pattern recognition software)[reply]
  37. Ligong Chen (talk) 13:58, 24 September 2010 (USA Eastern time) (Personal interests mainly on the piecewise regression analysis and the fundamentals of Statistics)
  38. Econterms (talk) 17:12, 9 October 2010 (UTC) -- interested in economics, institutional statistical offices, clear writing and algorithms, R language[reply]
  39. Benwing (talk · contribs) - Making articles (esp. intros) more understandable and less technical; Bayesian statistics, stuff related to machine learning and natural language processing 10:00, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
  40. Talgalili (talk) 11:20, 11 December 2010 (UTC) - Currently working on my masters degree in biostatistics (at Tel-Aviv University). My (current) fields of interest are the R language, visualization, FDR procedures, and other basic traditional statistics (regression, cluster analysis and so on).[reply]
  41. Mathstat (talk) 17:21, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  42. Richard Gill (talk) 12:57, 22 February 2011 (UTC). Interested in most everything. Here are links to my home page at Leiden university, and to myself as a topic in statistics Richard Gill.[reply]
  43. Falk Lieder (talk · contribs) 17 August 2011. Interested in Bayesian Statistics, Machine Learning, and Experimental Design.
  44. r_payne77 (talk · contribs) 19 August 2011. Interested in study designs, kernel machines, modelling, survival analysis.
  45. Testrider (talk) 13:05, 31 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  46. Statisfactions (talk · contribs) (I'm an R geek, interested in data presentation, auditory display of data, inference issues, and statistical education.) 17:21, 11 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  47. FordPrefect1979 (talk) 16:39, 16 December 2011 (UTC) I am an R and computer geek, and I'm interested in time series techniques used primarily in the physical sciences, economics, and medicine, general statistics used in the medical sciences, and the practice and teaching of statistics.[reply]
  48. byronshock (talk) Machine learning, nonparameteric and semiparametric methods, programming, and postsecondary statistics pedagogy
  49. Ca3tki (talk) 23:41, 18 February 2012 (UTC) public statistics[reply]
  50. SVBurger (talk) 22:11, 16 April 2012. MSc astrophysics, but it was mostly correlation statistics.
  51. Viraltux (talk) 14:33, 5 July 2012. MSc Statistics & Operation Research
  52. linas (talk) 23:06, 14 July 2012 (UTC) Category theoretic approach to set theory, probability; employed in machine learning.[reply]
  53. Denswei (talk · contribs) Biostatistician with most experience in clinical trials, plus some simulation and health economics. Use R & SAS for statistical programming, Excel for casual simulation. 20:31, 15 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  54. Jack Rae (talk) 07:35 (EST) 18th Sept 2012. PhD student in statistical machine learning CMU. Interested in computational learning theory, algorithm design, measure theoretic probability, graph theory and social network analysis.
  55. Douglas Whitaker (talk) 02:35, 31 October 2012 (UTC) PhD student in Statistics Education, previous MStat. Primarily interested in statistics education, R, and to a lesser extent applied statistics (particularly in ecology)[reply]

It has not been current practice to formally welcome new participants, so just join in by editing articles or their talk pages. See these resources for useful material.

Open tasks

Article-related tasks

Administrative tasks


Articles

Featured content

Featured articleFeatured articles
Actuary
Good article Good articles
Advanced Placement Statistics
Ars Conjectandi
Fleiss' kappa
Maximum spacing estimation
Francis Amasa Walker

New articles

An automatically generated list of new articles is available here, based on these rules.

Please feel free to list here any new statistics-related articles that you create or come across (newer articles at the top, please) and also add them to list of statistics topics.

List here older articles, recently added to the Statistics project.

Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, do not have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.

New templates and categories

Please add new categories to this list as well as here.

Review and assessment

Statistics

The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Statistics}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Statistics articles by quality and Category:Statistics articles by importance. A log of recent changes is available here.

Statistics articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 1 1 2
FL 1 1
GA 1 1 5 14 1 22
B 47 60 57 103 24 291
C 34 176 235 467 120 1,032
Start 7 163 391 1,540 616 2,717
Stub 12 75 903 204 1,194
List 1 17 24 81 2 20 145
Category 1,109 1,109
Disambig 14 14
File 5 5
Project 34 34
Redirect 1 8 24 90 356 479
Template 111 111
NA 1 1
Other 41 41
Assessed 91 438 812 3,199 1,673 985 7,198
Unassessed 1 17 18
Total 91 438 812 3,200 1,673 1,002 7,216
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 25,794 Ω = 4.91

Mathematics Wikiproject:probability and statistics

WikiProject Mathematics has a well-established sub-project for assessing articles at WikiProject Mathematics/Wikipedia 1.0 that tabulates articles tagged with {{maths rating|field=probability and statistics}}. Full details are at WikiProject Mathematics/Wikipedia 1.0/Probability and statistics.

Mathematics pages by quality
  Quality
 
Total pages 0
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 129,162 Ω = 4.97


Other potentially useful fields instead of "probability and statistics" are: "mathematical physics" for topics in statistical mechanics; "mathematicians" for biographies.

A ranking of articles on statistical topics by recent page views is at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Statistics/Popular_pages.

Article Alerts

This section is automatically populated by a bot, and may be empty.

Articles for deletion

  • 31 Oct 2025 – Network Science Based Basketball Analytics (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Gabefarkas (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
  • 30 Oct 2025 – SegReg (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Apocheir (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
  • 30 Oct 2025 – CumFreq (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Apocheir (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
  • 01 Oct 2025 – Stable count distribution (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Petam576 (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 08 Oct 2025; see discussion (4 participants)

Templates for discussion

Redirects for discussion

Good article nominees

Peer reviews

Articles to be merged

Articles to be split

Articles for creation

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Templates

Category:Statistics templates and Category:Template-Class Statistics articles include templates used by this project.

Portal

You can insert a link to the statistics portal (like the one shown at the right) by adding {{Portal|Statistics}} to the article — usually in the "See also" section (or equivalent).

Banners

If you find an article that falls under the scope of this project, feel free to add this banner to the top of its talk page by typing {{WPStatistics}} (or {{WikiProject Statistics}}), which will produce:

WikiProject iconStatistics
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject Statistics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of statistics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.StatisticsWikipedia:WikiProject StatisticsTemplate:WikiProject StatisticsStatistics
???This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale.

Articles that show this banner on the talk page are automatically included in the WikiProject Statistics articles category.

{{Stats banner}} is intended to identify pages, other than articles, as part of WikiProject Statistics. It should be used instead of {{WPStatistics}} on categories, templates and the like. This banner should not be used on article talk pages.

Statistics

{{StatsTopics}} provides navigational assistance on "List of..." articles related to statistics.

Infobox templates

Keep all parameters in {{Probability distribution}} and {{Probability distribution two}} to avoid raw code for them appearing in the infobox. Leave unknown parameters blank.
Delete inapplicable parameters in {{Infobox scientist}}. Leave applicable but unknown parameters blank.

Stub templates

Userbox template

Statistics User Boxes
Use this text in your userpage... ...to show this user box... ...and join these Wikipedians.
{{user statistician}}
This user is a statistician.
Wikipedian statisticians
{{User WikiProject Statistics}}
This user is a member of WikiProject Statistics.
WikiProject Statistics members

Categories

All categories tagged with the {{WPStatistics}} project template appear in Category:Category-Class Statistics articles.

Article categories

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Statistics

Other categories

Subpages

Resources

Recent changes and important articles

Editing resources

See also WikiProject Mathematics/Editor resources

The following are particularly helpful regarding mathematics, but note that valuable articles need not be dominated by mathematics.

Sites from which material may be copied freely

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Statistics.
Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: Statistics
Wikiversity has learning resources about Probability and statistics
Wikiversity has learning resources about Introduction to Statistics
Wikiquote has quotations related to Statistics.

See also Public domain resources

It is believed that articles from the following sites may be copied in whole or in part with or without modification provided a citation of the source is included:

Reference resources

See also WikiProject Mathematics/Reference resources

The following sites are copyrighted but may be useful as references:

Open access

Restricted access

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Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org
  • Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
  • Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
  • Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
  • Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

External watchlist

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