ess1454 Lindeberg--Feller Theorem
ess1454b LINDEBERG CONDITION See LINDEBERG--FELLER THEOREM
ess1455 Lindeberg--L\'{e}vy Theorem
ess1456 Lindley's Equation
ess1457 Lindstrom--Madden Method
ess1458 Linear Algebra, Computational
ess1459 Linear-Circular Correlation
ess1459b LINEAR CONTAMINATED INDEPENDENCE See DEPENDENCE, CONCEPTS OF
ess1460 Linear Estimators, Bayes
ess1461 Linear Exponential Family
ess1461b LINEAR FILTERING See PREDICTION, LINEAR
ess1462 Linear Hazard Rate Distribution
ess1463 Linearization
ess1463b LINEAR LEAST SQUARES See LEAST SQUARES
ess1464 Linear Models with Crossed-Error Structure
ess1465 Linear Models with Nested-Error Structure
ess1465b LINEAR PLATEAU MODELS See PLATEAU MODELS, LINEAR
ess1465b1 LINEAR PREDICTION See PREDICTION, LINEAR
ess1466 Linear Programming
ess1467 Linear Rank Tests
ess1468 Linear Regression
ess1468b LINEAR STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIPS See LISREL
ess1469 Linear Sufficiency
ess1470 Linear Systems, Statistical Theory
ess1471 Line Intercept Sampling
ess1472 Line Intersect Sampling
ess1473 Lineo-Normal Distribution
ess1474 Line Transect Sampling
ess1475 Linguistics, Statistics in
ess1475b LINKAGE CLUSTERING See CLASSIFICATION
ess1476 Linked Block Designs
ess1477 Link Index
ess1478 Link Relatives
ess1479 Link Tests
ess1480 Liouville--Dirichlet Distribution
ess1481 Lisrel
ess1482 Literature and Statistics
ess1482b LLOYD DAM See DAM THEORY
ess1482b1 LOCALLY MOST POWERFUL RANK TESTS See RANK ORDER STATISTICS
ess1483 Locally Optimal Statistical Tests
ess1484 Local Time
ess1484b LOCATION, MEASURES OF See MEAN, MEDIAN, MODE AND SKEWNESS; MEDIAN ESTIMATION, INVERSE
ess1485 Location Parameter, Estimation of
ess1486 Location-Scale Families
ess1487 Location-Scale Parameter
ess1488 Location Tests
ess1488b LOGARITHMIC NORMAL DISTRIBUTION See LOGNORMAL DISTRIBUTION
ess1489 Logarithmic Series Distribution
ess1490 Logarithmic Transformation
ess1491 Log-Change Index Numbers
ess1492 Log-Concave and Log-Convex Distributions
ess1492b LOGICAL TESTS See EDITING STATISTICAL DATA
ess1493 Logic of Statistical Reasoning
ess1494 Logistic Curve
ess1495 Logistic Distribution
ess1496 Logistic Regression
ess1497 Logit
ess1498 Log-Laplace Distribution
ess1498b LOG-LINEAR MODELS See CONTINGENCY TABLES
ess1499 Lognormal Distribution
ess1500 Log-Rank Scores, Statistics, and Tests
ess1501 Lomax Distribution
ess1502 Longitudinal Data Analysis
ess1503 Lord's Test Statistics
ess1504 Lorenz Curve
ess1505 Loss of Information
ess1505b LOT TOLERANCE PERCENT DEFECTIVE (LTPD) See ACCEPTANCE SAMPLING
ess1505b1 LOWER CONTROL LIMIT See CONTROL CHARTS
ess1505b2 LOWER PROBABILITIES See NON-ADDITIVE PROBABILITIES
ess1506 Lowspread
ess1507 \bm{L}-Statistics
ess1508 Lubbock's Formula
ess1509 Luce's Choice Axiom and Generalizations
ess1510 Lurking Variables
ess1510b LYAPUNOV See LIAPUNOV
ess1511 M\cref{ac}donald Distribution
ess1512 M\cref{ac}donald Function
ess1513 Maclaurin Series
ess1514 M\cref{ac}queen's Clustering Algorithm
ess1515 Mad
ess1516 Magic Square Designs
ess1517 Mahalanobis, Prasanta Chandra
ess1518 Mahalanobis $D^{2}$
ess1518b MAIL SURVEYS See SURVEY SAMPLING
ess1519 Main Effects
ess1520 Majorization and Schur Convexity
ess1521 Makeham-Gompertz Distribution
ess1521b {\bf MALLOWS} $\bfit{C_{P}}$ See $C_{P}$ \scref{Statistics}
ess1522 Malthus, Thomas Robert
ess1523 Malthusian Parameter
ess1524 Management Science, Statistics in
ess1525 Manifolds
ess1526 Manly---Parr Estimators
ess1527 Mann---Fertig Statistic
ess1528 Mann--Grubbs Method
ess1529 Mann's Test for Trend
ess1530 Mann--Whitney--Wilcoxon Statistic
ess1530b MANOVA See MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE
ess1531 Manpower Planning
ess1532 Mantel---Haenszel Statistic
ess1532b MANY-SERVER QUEUES See MULTI-SERVER QUEUES
ess1533 Marcinkiewicz Theorem
ess1534 Mardia's Test of Multinormality
ess1534b MARGINAL DISTRIBUTIONS See MARGINALIZATION
ess1535 Marginalization
ess1535b MARGINAL LIKELIHOOD See PSEUDOLIKELIHOOD
ess1536 Marginal Symmetry
ess1537 Marketing, Statistics in
ess1538 Markov, Andrei Andreevich
ess1539 Markov Decision Processes
ess1540 Markovian Dependence
ess1541 Markov Inequality
ess1542 Markov Processes
ess1543 Markov Random Fields
ess1544 Marriage
ess1545 Marsaglia's Table Method
ess1546 Marshall---Edgeworth---Bowley Index
ess1547 Martingales
ess1548 Masking and Swamping
ess1548b MASON's RULE See FLOWGRAPH ANALYSIS
ess1549 Master Samples
ess1550 Matched Pairs
ess1551 Matched Pairs $t$-Tests
ess1551b MATCHING DISTANCE See CLASSIFICATION
ess1552 The Matching Problem
ess1552b MATCHING TEST See TAKACS' GOODNESS-OF-FIT DISTRIBUTION
ess1552b1 MATCH STATISTICS See TAKACS' GOODNESS-OF-FIT DISTRIBUTION
ess1553 \bfit{Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, British Journal of}
ess1554 \bfit{Mathematical Biosciences}
ess1555 Mathematical Functions, Approximations to
ess1555b MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY See CLASSIFICATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS
ess1556 Mathematical Programming
ess1557 Mathematical Theory of Population
ess1558 {\bfit Mathematics of Computation}
ess1559 \bfit{Mathematische Operationsforschung Und Statistik, Series Statistics}
ess1560 Mathisen's Median Test
ess1561 Matrices, Compound
ess1561b MATRICES, RANDOM See RANDOM MATRICES
ess1562 Matric-$t$ Distribution
ess1562b MATRIX BETA DISTRIBUTION See MATRIX VARIATE BETA DISTRIBUTION
ess1563 Matrix Derivatives: Applications in Statistics
ess1564 Matrix, Ill-Conditioned
ess1564b MATRIX NORMAL DISTRIBUTION See MATRIX-VALUED DISTRIBUTIONS
ess1565 Matrix-Valued Distributions
ess1566 Matrix-Variate Beta Distribution
ess1567 Matusita's Distance
ess1567b MAURICE MODEL See COLTON's MODEL
ess1567b1 MAVERICK See OUTLIERS
ess1567b2 MAXIMAL INVARIANT STATISTICS See INVARIANCE CONCEPTS IN STATISTICS
ess1567b3 MAXIMIN TESTS See MINIMAX TESTS
ess1568 Maximum Allowable Percent Defective (Mapd)
ess1568b MAXIMUM AUTOCORRELATIONS FOR MOVING AVERAGES PROCESSES See MOVING AVERAGES
ess1569 Maximum Entropy Principle, Classical Approach
ess1570 Maximum Entropy Spectral Analysis
ess1571 Maximum Likelihood Estimation
ess1572 Maximum-Modulus Test
ess1573 Maximum Probability Estimation
ess1574 Maximum Product of Spacings (Mps) Estimation
ess1574b MAXVAR See GENERALIZED CANONICAL VARIABLES
ess1574b1 MAXWELL-BOLTZMANN STATISTICS See FERMI-DIRAC STATISTICS
ess1575 Maxwell Distribution
ess1576 Maxwell, James Clerk
ess1576b {\bf McCALL} $T$-{\bf SCORES} See NORMALIZED
ess1577 Mccarthy-Birnbaum Conjecture
ess1577b McINTYRE-TAKAHASHI-WAKIMOTO SELECTIVE PROCEDURE See MILLER-GRIFFITHS PROCEDURE
ess1578 Mckay's Approximation
ess1579 Mcnemar Statistic
ess1579b McNEMAR's TEST See M
ess1580 $m$-Dependence
ess1580b MEAN See ARITHMETIC MEAN; EXPECTED VALUE; GEOMETRIC MEAN; HARMONIC MEAN; MEAN, MEDIAN, MODE, AND SKEWNESS
ess1580b1 MEAN, ARITHMETIC See ARITHMETIC MEAN
ess1580b2 MEAN, ESTIMATION OF See LOCATION PARAMETER, ESTIMATION OF
ess1580b3 MEAN, GEOMETRIC See GEOMETRIC MEAN
ess1580b4 MEAN, HARMONIC See HARMONIC MEAN
ess1581 Mean, Median, Mode, and Skewness
ess1581b MEAN, TRIMMED See L
ess1581b1 MEAN, WINSORIZED See L
ess1582 Mean Concentration Function
ess1583 Mean Deviation
ess1583b MEAN DIFFERENCE See GINI's MEAN DIFFERENCE
ess1583b1 MEAN HALF-SQUARE SUCCESSIVE DIFFERENCE See SUCCESSIVE DIFFERENCES
ess1583b2 MEAN OF FINITE POPULATIONS See SEQUENTIAL ESTIMATION OF MEAN IN FINITE POPULATIONS
ess1584 Mean Reciprocal Values
ess1585 Mean Residual Life Function (Mrlf)
ess1586 Mean Slippage Problems
ess1587 Mean Squared Error
ess1587b MEAN SQUARE SUCCESSIVE DIFFERENCE See SUCCESSIVE DIFFERENCES
ess1587b1 MEAN SUCCESSIVE DIFFERENCE See SUCCESSIVE DIFFERENCES
ess1588 Mean Time to Failure (Mttf)
ess1588b MEAN UNBIASED ESTIMATOR See ESTIMATION; LOCATION SCALE PARAMETER
ess1589 Mean-Variance Analyses
ess1590 Measurement Error
ess1591 Measurement Structures and Statistics
ess1592 Measurement Theory
ess1593 Measures of Agreement
ess1593b MEASURES OF ASSOCIATION See ASSOCIATION, MEASURES OF
ess1593b1 MEASURES OF DISPERSION See SPREAD, MEASURES OF
ess1594 Measures of Information
ess1594b MEASURES OF LOCATION See MEAN, MEDIAN, MODE, AND SKEWNESS
ess1595 Measures of Similarity, Dissimilarity, and Distance
ess1596 Measures of Uniformity
ess1597 Measure Theory in Probability and Statistics
ess1597b MEDIAN See MEAN, MEDIAN, MODE, AND SKEWNESS
ess1597b1 MEDIAN EFFECTIVE DOSE See BIO-ASSAY, STATISTICAL METHODS IN; QUANTAL RESPONSE ANALYSIS
ess1598 Median Estimates and Sign Tests
ess1599 Median Estimation, Inverse
ess1599b MEDIAN LETHAL DOSE See BIOASSAY, STATISTICAL METHODS IN; QUANTAL RESPONSE ANALYSIS
ess1600 Median Polish
ess1600b MEDIAN TEST FOR TWO POPULATIONS See BROWN-MOOD MEDIAN TEST
ess1601 Median Unbiased Estimators
ess1602 Medical Diagnosis, Statistics in
ess1602b MEDICINE, STATISTICS IN See STATISTICS IN MEDICINE
ess1603 Medico-Actuarial Investigations
ess1604 Meixner Polynomials
ess1604b MELLIN TRANSFORM See INTEGRAL TRANSFORMS
ess1604b1 MEMORYLESS PROPERTY See CHARACTERIZATION OF DISTRIBUTIONS
ess1605 Menon Estimators
ess1606 Merriman, Mansfield
ess1607 Merrington-Pearson Approximation
ess1608 Mesokurtic Curve
ess1609 Messy Data
ess1610 M-Estimators
ess1611 Metamathematics of Probability
ess1612 Metameter
ess1612b METASTATISTICS See NONEXPERIMENTAL INFERENCE
ess1613 Meteorology, Statistics in
ess1614 Method of Averages
ess1614b METHOD OF ELEMENTS See COMMONALITY ANALYSIS; NEWTON-SPURRELL METHOD
ess1615 Method of Group Averages
ess1616 Method of Least Absolute Values
ess1617 Method of Least $P$Th Powers
ess1618 Method of Moments
ess1619 Method of Sieves
ess1619b METRIC NUMBER THEORY See PROBABILISTIC NUMBER THEORY
ess1619b1 METRICS AND DISTANCES ON PROBABILITY SPACES See PROBABILITY SPACES, METRICS AND DISTANCES ON
ess1620 Metrics, Ideal
ess1621 \bfit{Metrika}
ess1622 \bfit{Metron, International Journal of Statistics}
ess1623 Mickey's Unbiased Ratio and Regression Estimators
ess1624 Mid-Mean
ess1625 Midranges
ess1626 Midspread
ess1626b MIDZUNO SAMPLING DESIGN See RATIO ESTIMATORS
ess1627 Miettinen's Statistic
ess1628 Migration
ess1629 Military Standards for Fixed-Length Life Tests
ess1630 Military Standards for Sequential Life Testing
ess1631 Military Statistics
ess1632 Miller-Griffiths Procedure
ess1633 Miller's Paradox
ess1634 Milliken's Estimability Criterion
ess1635 Mills' Ratio
ess1635b MINIMAL CUT SET See COHERENT STRUCTURES
ess1635b1 MINIMAL PATH SET See COHERENT STRUCTURES
ess1635b2 {MINIMAL SUFFICIENT STATISTIC}\seclabe See 5s1mrbmss
ess1636 Minimax Decision Rules
ess1637 Minimax Estimation
ess1638 Minimax Method
ess1639 Minimax Tests
ess1640 Minimum Chi-Square
ess1641 Minimum-Description-Length Principle
ess1642 Minimum Discrimination Information (Mdi) Estimation
ess1643 Minimum Distance Estimation
ess1643b MINIMUM NORM QUADRATIC ESTIMATION See MINQE
ess1644 Minimum Rank Factor Analysis
ess1644b MINIMUM RISK EQUIVARIANT ESTIMATORS See EQUIVARIANT ESTIMATORS
ess1644b1 MINIMUM SPANNING TREE See DENDRITES
ess1645 Minimum Trace Factor Analysis
ess1645b MINIMUM UNLIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION See UNLIKELIHOOD
ess1646 Minimum Variance Unbiased Estimation
ess1647 $\mbox{Minitab}^{\rm Tm}$
ess1648 Minkowski's Inequality
ess1649 Minqe
ess1650 Minres
ess1650b MINRET METHOD See FACTOR ANALYSIS
ess1650b1 MISCLASSIFICATION PROBABILITY See DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS
ess1650b2 MISES' DISTRIBUTION See DIRECTIONAL DISTRIBUTIONS
ess1650b3 MISES, RICHARD VON See VON MISES, RICHARD
ess1650b4 MISSING DATA See INCOMPLETE DATA
ess1651 Missing Information Principle
ess1652 Misspecification, Tests for
ess1653 Mitscherlich's Law
ess1653b MIXED MODEL See FIXED
ess1653b1 MIXED MOMENT See PRODUCT MOMENT
ess1654 Mixed Poisson Process
ess1654b MIXING See ERGODIC THEOREMS
ess1655 Mixture Distributions
ess1656 Mixture Experiments
ess1657 Mixture Method
ess1657b MIZUTANI DISTRIBUTION See GENERALIZED HYPERGEOMETRIC DISTRIBUTIONS
ess1658 M\"{O}Bius Function
ess1658b MODAL BLOCK ALGORITHM See CLASSIFICATION
ess1658b1 MODE See MEAN, MEDIAN, MODE, AND SKEWNESS
ess1659 Model Construction: Selection of Distributions
ess1659b MODELING, STATISTICAL AND PROBABILISTIC See STATISTICAL AND PROBABILISTIC MODELING
ess1660 Models I, Ii, and Iii
ess1660b MODIFIED BISERIAL CORRELATION See BISERIAL CORRELATION
ess1660b1 MODIFIED HERMITE POLYNOMIALS See CHEBYSHEV--HERMITE POLYNOMIALS
ess1661 Modified Normal Distributions
ess1662 Modified (Or Curtailed) Sampling Plans
ess1663 Modified Power Series Distribution
ess1664 Modulus Transformation
ess1664b MOIVRE, ABRAHAM DE See DE MOIVRE, ABRAHAM
ess1665 Moivre--Laplace Theorem (Global)
ess1666 Moivre--Laplace Theorem (Local)
ess1666b MOMENT GENERATING FUNCTION See GENERATING FUNCTIONS
ess1667 Moment Matrix
ess1668 Moment Problem
ess1669 Moment-Ratio Diagrams
ess1670 Moment Ratios
ess1671 Moments
ess1671b MOMENTS, METHOD OF See METHOD OF MOMENTS
ess1672 Moments, Partial
ess1673 Moments, Trigonometric
ess1673b MOMENT TEST OF NORMALITY See D'AGOSTINO's TEST OF NORMALITY
ess1674 Monotone Likelihood Ratio
ess1675 Monotone Relationships
ess1675b MONOTONICITY AND POLYTONICITY, COEFFICIENTS OF See POLYTONICITY AND MONOTONICITY, COEFFICIENTS OF
ess1675b1 MONTE CARLO METHOD (DATA ADJUSTING) See EDITING STATISTICAL DATA
ess1676 Monte Carlo Methods
ess1677 Monte Carlo Swindle
ess1678 Montmort, Pierre R\'{e}mond De
ess1678b MOOD MEDIAN TEST See BROWNMOOD TEST
ess1678b1 MOOD SCALE TEST See MOOD's DISPERSION TEST
ess1679 Mood's Dispersion Test
ess1680 Moore--Penrose Inverse
ess1681 Moral Certainty
ess1681b MORAN DAM See DAM THEORY
ess1682 Morbidity
ess1682b MORGAN--PITMAN TEST See PITMAN--MORGAN TEST
ess1682b1 MORGENSTERN--FARLIE SYSTEM See FARLIE--GUMBEL--MORGENSTERN DISTRIBUTION
ess1682b2 MORTALITY See ACTUARIAL STATISTICS, LIFE; CLINICAL TRIALS; COMPETING RISKS; DEMOGRAPHY; FORCE OF MORTALITY; LIFE TABLES; RATES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VITAL STATISTICS
ess1682b3 MOSES TEST See HOLLANDER EXTREME TEST
ess1683 Moss
ess1684 Most Approximative Method
ess1684b MOST POWERFUL TEST See HYPOTHESIS TESTING
ess1685 Most Probable Number
ess1686 Most Stringent Test
ess1687 Mover--Stayer Model
ess1688 Moving Averages
ess1689 Moving-Observer Sampling Method
ess1690 Moving Sums (Mosum)
ess1690b MRLF See MEAN RESIDUAL LIFE FUNCTION
ess1690b1 MTTF See MEAN TIME TO FAILURE
ess1691 Muirhead's Theorem
ess1692 Multicollinearity
ess1693 Multidimensional Central Limit Theorems
ess1694 Multidimensional Contingency Tables
ess1695 Multidimensional Scaling
ess1695b MULTILINEAR FORMS See FORMS, BILINEAR
ess1696 Multinomial Coefficients
ess1697 Multinomial Distributions
ess1698 Multinomial Probit: Multinomial Logit
ess1698b MULTINOMIAL SAMPLING See NATURALISTIC SAMPLING
ess1699 Multinormal Distributions
ess1700 Multiphase Sampling
ess1701 Multiple Comparisons
ess1702 Multiple Correlation Coefficient
ess1703 Multiple Criteria Decision Making (Mcdm)
ess1704 Multiple Decision Procedures
ess1705 Multiple Decrement Tables
ess1706 Multiple Indicator Approach
ess1707 Multiple Linear Regression
ess1708 Multiple Matrix Sampling
ess1709 Multiple Range and Associated Test Procedures
ess1710 Multiple-Record Systems (Data)
ess1711 Multiple Sampling
ess1712 Multiple Time Series
ess1713 Multiplication Principle
ess1714 Multiresponse Permutation Procedures
ess1715 Multiserver Queues
ess1715b MULTISTAGE SAMPLING See STRATIFIED MULTISTAGE SAMPLING
ess1715b1 MULTISTAGE TESTS See SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS
ess1716 Multistate Coherent Systems
ess1717 Multistratified Sampling
ess1718 Multitrait-Multimethod Matrices