Statistics is the discipline of gathering and analyzing data. It has developed into subareas that are broadly defined by data type, and its methods are often motivated by scientific problems of contemporary interest, such as in genetics, functional MRI, climatology, epidemiology, clinical trials, finance, and more.
Sub-areas
- Time series and random fields
- Asymptotic theory
- Decision theory
- Nonparametric inference
- Resampling-based inference
- Geometric statistics
- Cluster analysis
- Multiple testing
- Functional and longitudinal data analysis
- Robust statistics
- Survival analysis
- Design of experiments
