ess1977 Plackett Family of Distributions
ess1978 Plackett's Identity
ess1979 Plaid and Half-Plaid Squares
ess1980 Planck Distribution
ess1981 Plateau Models, Linear
ess1982 Platykurtic Curve
ess1983 Plausibility Function
ess1984 Play-The-Loser Sampling
ess1985 Play-The-Winner Rules
ess1985b PLUG-IN RULES See NONPARAMETRIC DISCRIMINATION
ess1986 Pochhammer's Symbol
ess1987 Pocock and Simon Method
ess1987b POINCAR\'{E} RECURRENCE THEOREM See ERGODIC THEOREMS
ess1987b1 POINT BISERIAL CORRELATION See BISERIAL CORRELATION
ess1987b2 POINT ESTIMATION See ESTIMATION, POINT
ess1988 Point Multiserial (Pms) Correlation
ess1988b POINT OF AN UMBRELLA See UMBRELLA ALTERNATIVES
ess1988b1 POINT PROCESSES See STOCHASTIC PROCESSES, POINT
ess1989 Point Process, Stationary
ess1990 Poisson-Beta Distribution
ess1991 Poisson Binomial Distribution
ess1992 Poisson-Binomial Distribution
ess1993 Poisson Distribution
ess1994 Poisson Index of Dispersion
ess1995 Poisson-Inverse Gaussian Distribution
ess1996 Poisson Limit
ess1997 Poisson-Lognormal Distribution
ess1998 Poisson-Markov Process
ess1999 Poisson Matrix
ess2000 Poisson Processes
ess2001 Poisson Regression
ess2002 Poisson, Sim\'{e}on-Denis
ess2003 Poisson's Law of Large Numbers
ess2003b POISSON TREND TEST See POISSON REGRESSION
ess2003b1 POISSON VARIANCE TEST See POISSON REGRESSION
ess2004 Polar Chart
ess2005 Polarization Test
ess2006 \bfit{Policy and Information, International Journal on}
ess2006b POLICY SPACE METHOD See MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES
ess2007 Political Science, Statistics in
ess2008 Pollaczek-Khinchin Formula
ess2009 P\'{o}lya-Aeppli Distribution
ess2010 P\'{o}lya Distribution, Multivariate
ess2010b P\'{O}LYA--EGGENBERGER DISTRIBUTION See NEGATIVE BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; OCCUPANCY PROBLEMS
ess2011 P\'{o}lya--Lundberg Process
ess2012 P\'{o}lya's Theorem
ess2013 P\'{o}lya Type 2 Frequency $(\mbox{Pf}_{2})$ Distributions
ess2014 Polychoric and Polyserial Correlations
ess2015 Polygamma Functions
ess2016 Polykays
ess2016b POLYNOMIAL REGRESSION See REGRESSION POLYNOMIALS
ess2017 Polynomials of Matrix Arguments
ess2017b POLYSERIAL CORRELATION See POLYCHORIC AND POLYSERIAL CORRELATION
ess2018 Poly-$T$ Distributions
ess2019 Polytomous Variables
ess2020 Polytonicity and Monotonicity, Coefficients of
ess2021 Pool-Adjacent-Violators Algorithm
ess2022 Pooling Data
ess2023 Pools, Opinion
ess2024 Population Growth Models
ess2025 Population Or Sample Size Estimation
ess2026 Population Projection
ess2027 Population Pyramid
ess2028 Population Sampling in Less Developed Countries
ess2029 Portmanteau Test
ess2029b POSITIVITY, TOTAL See TOTAL POSITIVITY
ess2030 Posterior Distributions
ess2030b POSTERIOR MOMENTS See CONJUGATE FAMILIES OF DISTRIBUTIONS
ess2031 Posterior Probabilities
ess2032 Potthoff--Whittinghill Tests
ess2033 Power
ess2034 Power Function Distribution
ess2034b {{\bf POWER FUNCTIONS}{POWER}}}\seclabe See 7s1pfdbpfp
ess2035 Power Index of A Game
ess2036 Poweroids
ess2037 Power Product Sums
ess2038 Power Series Distributions
ess2038b POWER TRANSFORMATIONS See BOX AND COX TRANSFORMATION
ess2038b1 P-P PLOTS See GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF DATA
ess2039 Precedence Life Test
ess2040 Precise Measurement, Principle of
ess2041 Precision, Gauss's Measure of
ess2042 Precision, Index of
ess2043 Precision Matrix
ess2044 Predecessor--Successor Method
ess2045 Prediction and Filtering, Linear
ess2046 Prediction and Forecasting
ess2046b PREDICTION SPECIFICATION See SPECIFICATION, PREDICTOR
ess2046b1 PREDICTION, STRUCTURAL See STRUCTURAL PREDICTION
ess2047 Predictive Analysis
ess2047b PREDICTIVE DISTRIBUTION See PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS
ess2047b1 PREDICTIVE VALIDITY See GROUP TESTING
ess2047b2 PREDICTOR SPECIFICATION See SPECIFICATION, PREDICTOR
ess2048 Predominant Item
ess2049 Preemptive Discipline
ess2049b PREEMPTIVE PRIORITY See PREEMPTIVE DISCIPLINE
ess2050 Preference Functions
ess2050b PREFERENCE MAPPING See GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF DATA
ess2050b1 PREFERENCES See BAYESIAN INFERENCE; DECISION THEORY
ess2050b2 PREGIBON's LINK TEST See LINK TESTS
ess2050b3 PREMATURE AGGREGATION See HALF-NORMAL PLOTS
ess2051 Prevailing Item
ess2052 Prevision
ess2053 Priestley's Test for Harmonic Component(s)
ess2054 Primary Sampling Unit
ess2055 Primitive Root
ess2055b PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS See COMPONENT ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS
ess2056 Principal Components Regression Analysis
ess2057 Principal Moments
ess2057b {{\bf PRINCIPLE OF PARSIMONY}{PARSIMONY, PRINCIPLE OF; SCIENTIFIC METHOD IN STATISTICS}}}\seclabe See 7s1pm3bpop
ess2058 Principles of Professional Statistical Practice
ess2058b PRIOR DENSITY See PRIOR DISTRIBUTIONS
ess2059 Prior Distributions
ess2060 Priority Queue
ess2061 Prior Probabilities
ess2061b PROBABILISTIC GRAMMAR See LIN-GUISTICS, STATISTICS IN
ess2062 Probabilistic Number Theory
ess2063 Probabilistic Voting Models
ess2064 Probability Forecasting
ess2064b PROBABILITY GENERATING FUNCTIONS See GENERATING FUNCTIONS
ess2065 Probability, History of (Outline)
ess2066 Probability Inequalities for Sums of Bounded Random Variables
ess2067 Probability Integral Transformations
ess2067b PROBABILITY, INVERSE See BAYESIAN INFERENCE
ess2068 Probability Measure
ess2069 Probability Minimum Replacement Sampling Design
ess2070 Probability Plotting
ess2071 Probability Proportional to Size (PPS) Sampling
ess2072 Probability Spaces, Metrics and Distances on
ess2073 Probability Theory (Outline)
ess2074 Probable Error
ess2075 Probable Item
ess2075b PROBIT See QUANTAL RESPONSE ANALYSIS
ess2076 Problem of Points
ess2077 Problem Solving in Statistics
ess2078 Processes, Discrete
ess2079 Processes, Empirical
ess2080 Procrustes Transformation
ess2081 Producer Price Indexes
ess2081b PRODUCTION SCHEDULING See LINEAR PROGRAMMING
ess2082 Productivity Measurement
ess2082b PRODUCT-LIMIT ESTIMATOR See KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATOR
ess2083 Product Moment
ess2083b PRODUCT, MULTINOMIAL See CONTINGENCY TABLES
ess2083b1 PROFILES, CIRCULAR See SNOWFLAKES
ess2084 Profiles of Diversity
ess2085 Progressive Censoring Schemes
ess2086 Progressively Censored Data Analysis
ess2087 Projection Plots
ess2087b PROPAGATION OF ERROR See ERROR ANALYSIS; LAWS OF ERRORS
ess2088 Proportional Allocation
ess2088b PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL See COX's REGRESSION MODEL
ess2089 Proportional Reduction in Error (PRE) Measures of Association
ess2090 Proprotional Sampling
ess2091 Proportion Estimation in Surveys Using Remote Sensing
ess2092 Prospective Studies
ess2093 Proximity Data
ess2093b PROXIMITY GRAPH See GRAPH-THEORETIC CLUSTER ANALYSIS
ess2094 Proxy Variable
ess2094b PSEUDO-BAYESIAN INFERENCE See QUASI-BAYESIAN INFERENCE
ess2095 Pseudo-$F$
ess2096 Pseudo-Likelihood
ess2097 Pseudo-Median
ess2098 Pseudo-Random Number Generators
ess2099 Pseudo-$t$
ess2100 Pseudo-Variance
ess2101 Pseudo-Variates
ess2101b PSI-FUNCTION See DIGAMMA FUNCTION; POLYGAMMA FUNCTION
ess2102 Psychological Decision Making
ess2103 Psychological Scaling
ess2104 Psychological Testing Theory
ess2104b PSYCHOMETRICS See COMPONENT ANALYSIS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL DECISION MAKING; PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALING; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING THEORY
ess2105 \bfit{Psychometrika}
ess2106 Psychophysics, Statistical Methods in
ess2107 Public Opinion Polls
ess2108 Purchasing Power Parity
ess2109 Puri's Expected Normal Scores Test
ess2109b PURPOSIVE SAMPLING See REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLING
ess2109b1 PURPOSIVE SELECTION See REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLING
ess2110 \bm{P} Values
ess2111 Pyramid Scheme Models
ess2111b Q-Q PLOTS See GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF DATA
ess2112 QR Algorithm
ess2112b {QR FACTORIZATION}\seclabe See 7s1qaqf
ess2112b1 QUADE TEST FOR GENERAL ALTERNATIVES See WILCOXON-TYPE TESTS FOR ORDERED ALTERNATIVES IN RANDOMIZED BLOCKS
ess2112b2 QUADRANT DEPENDENCE See DEPENDENCE, CONCEPTS OF
ess2113 Quadratic Forms
ess2113b {QUADRATIC VARIANCE FUNCTIONS}\seclabe See 7s1qfbqvf
ess2114 Quadrat Sampling
ess2114b QUADRATURE See n
ess2115 Quadrigamma Function
ess2116 Quadrinomial Distribution
ess2117 Quadrinormal Distribution
ess2117b QUALITATIVE DATA See CATEGORICAL DATA; NOMINAL DATA; ORDINAL DATA
ess2118 Quality Control, Statistical
ess2119 Quality Measurement Plan (Qmp)
ess2120 \bfit{Quality Technology, Journal of}
ess2121 Quandt-Ramsey (Mgf) Estimator
ess2122 Quangle
ess2122b QUANTAL DATA See BIOASSAY, STATISTICAL METHODS IN; CATEGORICAL DATA; NOMINAL DATA; QUANTAL RESPONSE ANALYSIS
ess2123 Quantal Response Analysis
ess2124 Quantile Estimation
ess2125 Quantile Processes
ess2126 Quantiles
ess2127 Quantile Transformation Methods
ess2128 Quantit Analysis
ess2129 Quantum Hunting
ess2130 Quantum Mechanics and Probability: An Overview
ess2131 Quantum Mechanics: Statistical Interpretation
ess2132 Quantum Physics and Functional Integration
ess2133 Quartic Exponential Distribution
ess2133b QUARTILE See QUANTILES
ess2134 Quartile Deviation
ess2135 Quartile Deviation, Coefficient of
ess2136 Quartimax
ess2137 Quasi-Bayesian Inference
ess2138 Quasibinomial Distributions
ess2138b QUASI-EXPERIMENT See OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES
ess2139 Quasi-Factorial Designs
ess2140 Quasi-Independence
ess2141 Quasi-Likelihood Functions
ess2141b QUASI-LINEARIZATION See NEWTON--RAPHSON METHODS
ess2142 Quasi-Medians
ess2142b QUASI-NEWTON METHODS See NEWTON--RAPHSON METHODS
ess2142b1 QUASI-RANDOM NUMBERS See QUASI-RANDOM SEQUENCES
ess2143 Quasi-Random Sampling
ess2144 Quasi-Random Sequences
ess2144b QUASI-RANGES See RANGES
ess2145 Quasi-Symmetry
ess2146 Quenouille's Estimator
ess2147 Quenouille's Test
ess2147b QUESTIONNAIRES See QUESTION-WORDING EFFECTS IN SURVEYS; PUBLIC OPINION POLLS
ess2148 Question-Wording Effects in Surveys
ess2149 Quetelet, Adolphe
ess2150 Quetelet Index
ess2151 Queueing Theory
ess2152 Quincunx
ess2153 Quota Sampling
ess2154 Quotient Method
ess2155 Rademacher Functions
ess2156 Radial Error
ess2157 Radico-Normal Distribution
ess2158 Radon--Nikodym Theorem
ess2159 Radon Transformation
ess2160 Raikov's Theorem
ess2161 Ramsey's Prior
ess2161b RAMSEY THEORY See GRAPH THEORY
ess2162 Random Balance Designs
ess2162b RANDOM DETERMINANT See RANDOM MATRIX
ess2163 Random-Digit Dialing, Sampling Methods
ess2163b RANDOM EFFECTS MODEL See VARIANCE COMPONENTS
ess2164 Random Fields
ess2165 Random Graphs
ess2166 Randomization---I
ess2167 Randomization---Ii
ess2168 Randomization, Constrained
ess2169 Randomization Tests
ess2169b RANDOMIZED BLOCKS See BLOCKS, RANDOMIZED COMPLETE
ess2170 Randomized Gamma Distribution
ess2170b RANDOMIZED MODEL See RANDOMIZATION---I; RANDOMIZATION---II
ess2171 Randomized Response
ess2172 Randomized Tests
ess2173 Random Matrices
ess2174 Randomness and Probability---Complexity of Description
ess2175 Randomness, Tests of
ess2175b RANDOM NOISE See NOISE
ess2175b1 RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION See GENERATION OF RANDOM VARIABLES
ess2175b2 RANDOM SAMPLING, SIMPLE See SIMPLE RANDOM SAMPLING
ess2176 Random Sets of Points
ess2177 Random Sum Distributions
ess2178 Random Tessellations
ess2179 Random Utility Models
ess2179b RANDOM VARIABLE See PROBABILITY THEORY
ess2179b1 RANDOM VARIABLES, COMPUTER-GENERATED See GENERATION OF RANDOM VARIABLES
ess2179b2 RANDOM VECTOR See PROBABILITY THEORY
ess2180 Random Walks
ess2181 Range-Preserving Estimators
ess2182 Ranges
ess2182b RANK ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE See RANK ORDER STATISTICS
ess2183 Ranked Set Sampling
ess2183b RANK ESTIMATORS, SEQUENTIAL See SEQUENTIAL RANK ESTIMATORS
ess2184 Ranking Procedures
ess2185 Rank Interaction
ess2186 Rankit
ess2187 Rank Likelihood
ess2188 Rank of Matrix
ess2189 Rank Order Statistics
ess2189b {RANK SUM TESTS} See MANN---WHITNEY---WILCOXON STATISTIC; RANK TESTS
ess2190 Rank Tests (Excluding Group Rank Tests)
ess2191 Rank Tests, Grouped Data
ess2191b RAO---BLACKWELLIZATION See MINIMUM VARIANCE UNBIASED ESTIMATOR; RAO---BLACKWELL THEOREM
ess2192 Rao---Blackwell Theorem
ess2193 Rao's Axiomatization of Diversity Measures
ess2193b RAO SCORING TEST See SCORE STATISTICS
ess2194 Rare-Event Risk Analysis
ess2195 Rarefaction Curves
ess2196 Rasch, Georg
ess2197 Rasch Model, The
ess2198 Rates, Standardized
ess2198b RATIO CONTROL METHOD See EDITING STATISTICAL DATA
ess2199 Ratio Correlation
ess2200 Ratio Estimators
ess2200b RATIONAL SUBGROUP See ACCEPTANCE SAMPLING; CONTROL CHARTS; QUALITY CONTROL, STATISTICAL
ess2201 Ratio of Bivariate Normal Variables
ess2202 Rayleigh Distribution
ess2202b \bm{R}-{\bf CHART} See CONTROL CHARTS
ess2202b1 RECIPROCAL AVERAGING See CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS
ess2203 Reciprocal Differences
ess2204 Reciprocal Distribution
ess2205 Record Linkage and Matching Systems
ess2206 Recovery of Interblock Information
ess2206b RECTANGULAR DISTRIBUTION See UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION
ess2206b1 RECTANGULAR FREQUENCY POLYGON See HISTOGRAMS
ess2206b2 RECTIFIED INDEX NUMBER See TEST APPROACH TO INDEX NUMBERS
ess2206b3 RECTILINEAR TREND See TREND
ess2207 Recurrence Criterion
ess2207b RECURRENT EVENTS See RENEWAL THEORY
ess2207b1 RECURRENT STATE See MARKOV PROCESSES
ess2208 Reduced Model
ess2208b REDUCIBLE CHAIN See MARKOV PROCESSES
ess2209 Reduction of Data
ess2209b REDUNDANCY See COHERENT STRUCTURE THEORY
ess2210 Redundancy Analysis
ess2211 Reed---Frost Chain Binomial Model
ess2212 Reference Set
ess2213 Reflection Principle
ess2214 Refusal Rate
ess2215 Regenerative Processes
ess2216 Regression, Bayesian
ess2217 Regression Coefficients
ess2218 Regression: Confluence Analysis
ess2219 Regression Diagnostics
ess2220 Regression, Fractional
ess2221 Regression, Inverse
ess2221b REGRESSION, ISOTONIC See ISOTONIC REGRESSION
ess2221b1 REGRESSION, LATENT ROOT See LATENT ROOT REGRESSION
ess2221b2 REGRESSION, LINEAR See LINEAR REGRESSION
ess2222 Regression, Median
ess2223 Regression Models, Types of
ess2223b REGRESSION, MULTIPLE LINEAR See MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION
ess2223b1 REGRESSION, NONLINEAR See NONLINEAR REGRESSION
ess2223b2 REGRESSION, PARTIAL See PARTIAL REGRESSION
ess2224 Regression, Polynomial
ess2224b REGRESSION, PRINCIPAL COMPONENT See COMPONENT ANALYSIS
ess2225 Regression, Repeated Median Line Method
ess2225b REGRESSION, RIDGE See RIDGE REGRESSION
ess2226 Regressions, Switching
ess2226b REGRESSION, STRUCTURAL See STRUCTURAL INFERENCE
ess2227 Regression to The Mean
ess2228 Regression Variables, Selection of
ess2228b REGRESSION, WRONG See REGRESSION, INVERSE