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Table that displays the frequency of variables
In statistics, a contingency table (also known as a cross tabulation or crosstab) is a type of table in a matrix format that displays the multivariate
Contingency_table
Table layout for visualizing performance; also called an error matrix
classifications of visual (and later auditory) stimuli. It is a special kind of contingency table, with two dimensions ("actual" and "predicted"), and identical sets
Confusion_matrix
Topics referred to by the same term
logic Contingency plan, in planning Contingency (electrical grid), in electrical grid engineering Contingency table, in statistics Contingency theory
Contingency
Table that summarizes data from another table
reporting Comparison of office suites Comparison of OLAP servers Contingency table, a crosstab that tallies counts, rather than totals Data drilling
Pivot_table
Statistical significance test
test) is a statistical significance test used in the analysis of contingency tables. Although in practice it is employed when sample sizes are small,
Fisher's_exact_test
Statistical hypothesis test
variables (two dimensions of the contingency table) are independent in influencing the test statistic (values within the table). The test is valid when the
Chi-squared_test
Relationship between items in a set
rearranged into ascending order. In sports, standings, rankings, or league tables group teams of a particular league, conference, or division in a chart based
Ranking
Statistical methods for comparing samples
two-by-two contingency table. Fisher's exact test is more suitable for when the sample sizes are small. Treatment of 2-by-2 contingency table has been investigated
Two-proportion_Z-test
Statistic quantifying the association between two events
{\displaystyle H_{N}=594} stayed healthy. We can organize this in a contingency table: Diseased Healthy Exposed 20 380 Not exposed 6 594 {\displaystyle
Odds_ratio
Quantitative measurement of accuracy
another gold standard test – and cross tabulates the data into a 2×2 contingency table, comparing the two classifications. One then evaluates the classifier
Evaluation of binary classifiers
Evaluation_of_binary_classifiers
Statistical theorem
into a contingency table with rows corresponding to the coin and columns corresponding to heads or tails. The elements of the contingency table will be
Wilks'_theorem
Statistic for rank correlation
r = Number of rows of the contingency table (i.e. number of distinct x i ) c = Number of columns of the contingency table (i.e. number of distinct y
Kendall rank correlation coefficient
Kendall_rank_correlation_coefficient
Measure of variation in statistics
standard deviations of the mean is at least as much as given in the following table. The central limit theorem states that the distribution of an average of
Standard_deviation
Evaluates how likely it is that any difference between data sets arose by chance
associated contingency table), and Cols corresponds to the number of independent groups (i.e. columns in the associated contingency table). For a test
Pearson's_chi-squared_test
Probability distribution
distribution Multivariate Student distribution Standard normal table (Z-distribution table) t statistic Tau distribution, for internally studentized residuals
Student's_t-distribution
Number of occurrences in an experiment or study
into the following frequency table. Bivariate joint frequency distributions are often presented as (two-way) contingency tables: The total row and total column
Frequency_(statistics)
Function of the observed sample results
Tests of Goodness of Fit, Independence and Homogeneity; with Table of χ2, Table III. Table of χ2. Fisher 1971, II. The Principles of Experimentation, Illustrated
P-value
test χ 2 {\displaystyle \chi ^{2}} test nominal non-parametric No Contingency table, sample size > ca. 60, any cell content ≥ 5, marginal totals fixed
List_of_statistical_tests
Dividing things between two categories
(incorrect negative assignments). These can be arranged into a 2×2 contingency table, with rows corresponding to actual value – condition positive or condition
Binary_classification
Statistical hypothesis test
summary(word.recall.data.lm) The linear regression provides a table of coefficients and p-values. The table of coefficients gives the following results. The estimate
Student's_t-test
Diagnostic plot of binary classifier ability
for some condition. The four outcomes can be formulated in a 2×2 contingency table or confusion matrix, as follows: the number of real positive cases
Receiver operating characteristic
Receiver_operating_characteristic
Data transformation of statistics into rank
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Ranking_(statistics)
Statistical model for a binary dependent variable
{\displaystyle {\frac {ad}{bc}}} where a, b, c and d are cells in a 2×2 contingency table. If there are multiple explanatory variables, the above expression
Logistic_regression
Statistical model for count data
linear model form of regression analysis used to model count data and contingency tables. Poisson regression assumes the response variable Y has a Poisson
Poisson_regression
Generalization of the binomial distribution
during that time. Such scenarios can be represented using a two-by-two contingency table with the number of elements that had each of the combination of events
Multinomial_distribution
Nonparametric measure of rank correlation
judiciously..." Despite their warning Schober and others (2018) provide a table indicating that correlations less than or equal to 0.1 are negligible; correlations
Spearman's rank correlation coefficient
Spearman's_rank_correlation_coefficient
Method of data analysis
It is traditionally applied to contingency tables. CA decomposes the chi-squared statistic associated to this table into orthogonal factors. Because
Principal_component_analysis
Range to estimate an unknown parameter
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Confidence_interval
Middle quantile of a data set or probability distribution
distribution. In this section, we give an example. Consider the following table, representing a sample of 3,800 (discrete-valued) observations: Because
Median
Discrete probability distribution
failure. Let N describe the number of all marbles in the urn (see contingency table below) and K describe the number of green marbles, then N − K corresponds
Hypergeometric_distribution
Measure of statistical dispersion
ordinary median. The following table has 13 rows, and follows the rules for the odd number of entries. For the data in this table the interquartile range is
Interquartile_range
Statistical measure to determine how suited data is for factor analysis
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Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin_test
Statistical method for handling multiple comparisons
=\operatorname {E} [V/R\mid R>0]\cdot \operatorname {P} (R>0)} . The following table defines the possible outcomes when testing multiple null hypotheses. Suppose
False_discovery_rate
Statistical measure of association for two binary variables
In statistics, the phi coefficient, also known as the mean square contingency coefficient or Yule coefficient of correlation and commonly denoted by φ
Phi_coefficient
Statistical method
statistical test commonly used when analyzing count data organized in a contingency table, particularly when sample sizes are small. It is specifically designed
Yates's correction for continuity
Yates's_correction_for_continuity
Statistical phenomenon
demonstration would not undo the effects of lifelong exposure to a perverse contingency. The regression fallacy is also explained in Rolf Dobelli's The Art of
Regression_toward_the_mean
Method of statistical inference
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Bayesian_inference
Number of values in the final calculation of a statistic that are free to vary
Fisher, R. A. (January 1922). "On the Interpretation of χ2 from Contingency Tables, and the Calculation of P". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society
Degrees of freedom (statistics)
Degrees_of_freedom_(statistics)
Measure of linear correlation
Thus an approximate p-value can be obtained from a normal probability table. For example, if z = 2.2 is observed and a two-sided p-value is desired
Pearson correlation coefficient
Pearson_correlation_coefficient
Set of statistical processes for estimating the relationships among variables
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Regression_analysis
Probabilistic problem-solving algorithm
from pseudorandom number generators, which are far quicker to use than the tables of random numbers that had been previously employed. Monte Carlo methods
Monte_Carlo_method
for square contingency tables. It was published by Alexander Tschuprow (alternative spelling: Chuprov) in 1939. For an r × c contingency table with r rows
Tschuprow's_T
Statistical modeling method
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Linear_regression
Statistics applied to risk in insurance and other financial products
analysis of rates of disability, morbidity, mortality, fertility and other contingencies. The effects of consumer choice and the geographical distribution of
Actuarial_science
Pattern-recognition performance metrics
argued to be flawed as they ignore the true negative cell of the contingency table, and they are easily manipulated by biasing the predictions. The first
Precision_and_recall
Statistical test
score in question. This is Q. S = P – Q Cast the data into an ordered contingency table, with the levels of the independent variable increasing from left
Jonckheere's_trend_test
Statistical measure of variability
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Median_absolute_deviation
Statistical test comparing two probability distributions
under the null hypothesis were published by Andrey Kolmogorov, while a table of the distribution was published by Nikolai Smirnov. Recurrence relations
Kolmogorov–Smirnov_test
Estimates values in an N-dimensional matrix
input–output models in economics, estimating expected quasi-independent contingency tables, biproportional apportionment systems of political representation
Iterative proportional fitting
Iterative_proportional_fitting
Generates a forecast of future values of a time series
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Exponential_smoothing
Graphical representation of the distribution of numerical data
their homes. Using their data on the time occupied by travel to work, the table below shows the absolute number of people who responded with travel times
Histogram
Theory and technique of psychological measurement
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Psychometrics
Concept in statistics
is the statistical process of adjusting data sample weights of a contingency table to match desired marginal totals. "1. How different weighting methods
Raking
Statistical hypothesis test
in the F table, one needs to utilize the respective degrees of freedom. This involves identifying the appropriate row and column in the F table that corresponds
F-test
Type of chart
information on what each stat used in the table represents, you can refer to this reference by the MLB. We will use this table below to create Radar charts comparing
Radar_chart
Statistic measuring inter-rater agreement for categorical items
given the quantities specified by the marginal totals of square contingency table. Thus, κ = 0 when the observed allocation is apparently random, regardless
Cohen's_kappa
Statistical measure of association
correlation between the variables.[citation needed] In the case of a 2 × 2 contingency table Cramér's V is equal to the absolute value of Phi coefficient. Let
Cramér's_V
Experiment methodology
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A/B_testing
Type of numerical analysis
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Isotonic_regression
Selection of data points in statistics
Postulate the effect size of interest, α, and β. Check sample size table Select the table corresponding to the selected α Locate the row corresponding to
Sampling_(statistics)
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List of probability distributions
List_of_probability_distributions
Class of statistical models
statistic for β {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\beta }}} . Following is a table of several exponential-family distributions in common use and the data they
Generalized_linear_model
Statistical property
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Standard_error
Statistical measure of how far values spread from their average
{n+1}{2}}\right)^{2}\\[4pt]&={\frac {n^{2}-1}{12}}.\end{aligned}}} The following table lists the variance for some commonly used probability distributions. Variance
Variance
Measure of the joint variability
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Covariance
Statistical property of a test item
2 × 2 contingency table is used at each interval of k {\textstyle k} comparing both groups on an individual item. The rows of the contingency table correspond
Differential_item_functioning
Diagnostic plot in multivariate statistics
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Scree_plot
Data visualization
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Box_plot
Statistical evaluation method
multiple possible thresholds. Each threshold generates a two-by-two contingency table, which contains four entries: hits, misses, false alarms, and correct
Total operating characteristic
Total_operating_characteristic
Fundamental theorem in probability theory and statistics
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Central_limit_theorem
Test used in the analysis of stratified or matched categorical data
series of 2 × 2 contingency tables, one for each stratum. The i-th such contingency table is: The common odds-ratio of the K contingency tables is defined
Cochran–Mantel–Haenszel statistics
Cochran–Mantel–Haenszel_statistics
Statistical model validation technique
derived from information (e.g., counts, frequency) contained within a contingency table or confusion matrix could also be used. When the value being predicted
Cross-validation_(statistics)
Circular statistical graph of proportionality
which this diagram first appeared—an attention-getting book of charts and tables—rather than to this specific type of diagram. "Diagram of the causes of
Pie_chart
Type of statistics
this case, descriptive statistics include: Cross-tabulations and contingency tables Graphical representation via scatterplots Quantitative measures of
Descriptive_statistics
Concept in inferential statistics
"nonsignificant" survive, whether expressed in words, by asterisks in a table, or in some other way. Mathematics portal A/B testing, ABX test Estimation
Statistical_significance
Numerical measure of a statistical relationship between variables
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Correlation_coefficient
Statistical relationship
coefficient. Consider the joint probability distribution of X and Y given in the table below. For this joint distribution, the marginal distributions are: P (
Correlation
Branch of statistics
A life table summarizes survival data in terms of the number of events and the proportion surviving at each event time point. The life table for the
Survival_analysis
Type of statistical measure over subsets of a dataset
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Moving_average
Unit of information
a collection of data. Data is usually organized into structures such as tables that provide additional context and meaning, and may itself be used as data
Data
Measure of the asymmetry of random variables
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Skewness
Statistic of a given score
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Percentile_rank
Test of normality in frequentist statistics
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Shapiro–Wilk_test
Type of scatter plot
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Volcano_plot_(statistics)
Collection of statistical models
compare the observed value of F with the critical value of F determined from tables. The critical value of F is a function of the degrees of freedom of the
Analysis_of_variance
Bias in causal inference
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Confounding
Experimental design in statistics
But, if you average the pairs of numbers for cage design, you get the [table below], which shows what the two other factors did. … It led to the extraordinary
Factorial_experiment
Statistical test
error units from the population mean of 100. Looking up the z-score in a table of the standard normal distribution cumulative probability, we find that
Z-test
Statistical measure of a test's accuracy
In statistical analysis of binary classification and information retrieval systems, the F-score or F-measure is a measure of predictive performance. It
F-score
Statistical property
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Homoscedasticity and heteroscedasticity
Homoscedasticity_and_heteroscedasticity
Statistical considerations on how many observations to make
pre-determined tables for certain values, by formulas, by simulation, by Mead's resource equation, or by the cumulative distribution function: The table shown
Sample_size_determination
Approximation method in statistics
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Least_squares
Method used in statistics, pattern recognition, and other fields
therefore leading to a high percent correct classified in the classification table. Each function is given a discriminant score[clarification needed] to determine
Linear_discriminant_analysis
Non-parametric statistic used to estimate the survival function
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Kaplan–Meier_estimator
In mathematics, a quantitative measure of the shape of a set of points
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Moment_(mathematics)
Statistic which divides a data set into 100 parts and analyzes it as a percentage
interpolation methods, results can be a bit crude. The Nearest-Rank Methods table shows the computational steps for exclusive and inclusive methods. Interpolation
Percentile
Grouping a set of objects by similarity
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Cluster_analysis
Measure of goodness of fit for a statistical model
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Deviance_(statistics)
Model for generating observable data in probability and statistics
{\displaystyle p(y|x)} will be following: Shannon (1948) gives an example in which a table of frequencies of English word pairs is used to generate a sentence beginning
Generative_model
Sampling from a population which can be partitioned into subpopulations
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Stratified_sampling
CONTINGENCY TABLE
CONTINGENCY TABLE
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Old English bord ‘board’, ‘plank’, ‘table’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a carpenter or a topographic name for someone who lived in a plank-built cottage.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : metonymic occupational name for a producer or seller of table linen, from Old French nappe ‘table cloth’.English : either a variant spelling of Knapp or a reduced variant of Scottish McNabb.Altered spelling of German Knapp.German : metonymic occupational name for a bowl and cup maker, from Middle Low German nap ‘bowl’, ‘mug’, or alternatively, from an old personal name formed with an element cognate with Old High German (gi-)nÄda ‘grace’, ‘benevolence’.
Boy/Male
Arabic
Table Companion; Associate
Surname or Lastname
Welsh
Welsh : Anglicized form of Welsh ap Rhiddid ‘son of Rhiddid’, a personal name of unexplained etymology.Welsh : Anglicized form of ap Redith ‘son of Redith’, a short form of Meredith; the short form occurs only in this Anglicized spelling.Welsh : from the personal name Predyr, Peredur (perhaps from Old Welsh peri ‘spears’ + dur ‘hard’, ‘steel’), which was borne, in Arthurian legend, by one of the knights of the Round Table.Welsh : occupational name, from Welsh prydydd ‘bard’.English : habitational name from Priddy in Somerset, named probably with Celtic words meaning ‘earth house’.
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Associate; Table Companion
Boy/Male
Biblical
A moist table.
Male
Welsh
Middle Welsh form of Old Welsh Urbgen, URIEN means "privileged birth." Urien was an actual historical king of Rheged who came to be incorporated into Arthurian legend as a Knight of the Round Table who initially opposed Arthur, but later became an ally. He was the husband of Morgan le Fay, father of Morvydd, Ywain/Owain, and Ywain the Bastard. Some authors make him a brother to King Lot and King Auguselus.Â
Girl/Female
Biblical
Cultivated field or table-land.
Boy/Male
Arthurian Legend Welsh
Gentle. Modest and brave Sir Gareth was a legendary knight of King Arthur's Round Table.
Surname or Lastname
German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Middle High German or Middle Low German banc, or Yiddish bank ‘bench’, ‘table’, ‘counter’, in any of various senses, e.g. a metonymic occupational name for anyone whose work required a bench or counter, for example a butcher, baker, court official, or money changer.Danish and Swedish : topographic name from bank ‘(sand)bank’ or a habitational name from a farm named with this word.Danish and Swedish : from bank ‘noise’, hence a nickname for a loud or noisy person. Compare Bang.Danish : habitational name from the German place name Bänkau.English : probably a variant of Banks.Americanized spelling of Polish Bąk, literally ‘horsefly’; perhaps a nickname for an irritating person.Hungarian (Bánk) : from a pet form of the old secular personal name Bán.
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Table Companion; Associate; Friend; Person with whom One Sits
Surname or Lastname
English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : occupational name from Old French tablier ‘joiner’.
Surname or Lastname
English (West Midlands)
English (West Midlands) : habitational name of uncertain origin: probably from a lost settlement called Buddeley in Tabley Superior, Cheshire. Another possibility is Budleigh in Devon (Bodelie in Domesday Book), named with Old English budda ‘beetle’ (or the same word used as a byname) + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Girl/Female
Biblical
A table, news.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English chike ‘young fowl’ (a shortened form of chiken), applied as a metonymic occupational name for someone who bred poultry for the table, or as a nickname from the same word used as a term of endearment.English : variant of Cheek.
Surname or Lastname
English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : occupational name denoting a servant who carried the ewer to guests at table so that they could wash their hands, Anglo-Norman French and Middle English ewerer (related to ewere ‘jug’), with the French definite article l’.Cornish : variant of Flower 4.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Table companion. Associate.
Surname or Lastname
Welsh
Welsh : Anglicized form of the Welsh patronymic ap Heilyn ‘son of Heilyn’, which is probably a derivative of a word meaning ‘to serve at table’.English : habitational name from Palling in Norfolk or Poling in Sussex. These were named in Old English with the personal names Pælli and PÄl respectively, + -ingas ‘followers of’, ‘dependants of’.French : unexplained.A Palin, also written Palen and Pallin, from the Poitou region of France, is documented in Quebec City in 1692, with the secondary surname Dabonville.
Boy/Male
English
Pierces the valley. One of the knights of the Round Table who searched for the Holy Grail (in...
Girl/Female
Arabic, Hindu, Indian, Muslim, Parsi
Round Shaped; Tablet; Rose Coloured; Rosy
CONTINGENCY TABLE
CONTINGENCY TABLE
Female
Polish
Polish form of Latin Gratia, GRACJA means "pleasing, agreeable."
Girl/Female
Tamil
Subbareddy | ஸà¯à®ªà¯à®ªà®°à¯‡à®¤à¯à®¤à¯à®¯
God
Girl/Female
Tamil
Rakshina | ரகà¯à®·à¯€à®¨à®¾
Cute
Boy/Male
Tamil
Naagadatha | நாகதாதா
One of the kauravas
Boy/Male
Tamil
Aim, Target
Boy/Male
Celtic
Dark skinned fighter.
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
Respectable man
Girl/Female
Celtic, French, German
Race of Women; Juniper Tree; White Wave
Boy/Male
Shakespearean Greek Latin
The History of Troilus and Cressida' A Greek commander.
Female
Hindi/Indian
(राधा) Hindi name RADHA means "successful." In mythology, this is the name of a lover of Krishna.
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n.
An adjunct or accessory.
a.
Dependent on events; contingent.
n.
A certain possible event that may or may not happen, by which, when happening, some particular title may be affected.
n.
Uninterrupted course; continuity.
n.
The restraint which a person imposes upon his desires and passions; the act or power of refraining from indulgence of the sexual appetite, esp. from unlawful indulgence; sometimes, moderation in sexual indulgence.
n.
An event which may or may not occur; that which is possible or probable; a fortuitous event; a chance.
adv.
In a contingent manner; without design or foresight; accidentally.
a.
Constituting an object of expectation; contingent.
n.
Alt. of Continency
a.
Dependent on that which is undetermined or unknown; as, the success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he can not control.
n.
Self-restraint; self-command.
n.
That which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency.
pl.
of Contingency
n.
Union or connection; the state of touching or contact.
n.
That which is possible; a contingency; a thing or event that may not happen; a contingent interest, as in real or personal estate.
n.
See Contingency.
n.
An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future; a contingency.
a.
Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate.
a.
Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract.
n.
The quality or state of being contingent or casual; the possibility of coming to pass.