STATISTICAL METHOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does statistical method mean? 

• STATISTICAL METHOD (noun)
  The noun STATISTICAL METHOD has 1 sense:

1. a method of analyzing or representing statistical data; a procedure for calculating a statistic

  Familiarity information: STATISTICAL METHOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STATISTICAL METHOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A method of analyzing or representing statistical data; a procedure for calculating a statistic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

statistical method; statistical procedure

Hypernyms ("statistical method" is a kind of...):

method (a way of doing something, especially a systematic way; implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps))

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "statistical method"):

least squares; method of least squares (a method of fitting a curve to data points so as to minimize the sum of the squares of the distances of the points from the curve)

multivariate analysis (a generic term for any statistical technique used to analyze data from more than one variable)

regression; regression toward the mean; simple regression; statistical regression (the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x))

Holonyms ("statistical method" is a part of...):

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)

 Context examples 

A statistical method used for multiple testing corrections to control the expected proportion of false positives (Type I eror) among rejected tests or hypotheses.

(Family-Wise Error Rate, NCI Thesaurus)

A statistical method used for multiple testing corrections to control the expected proportion of false positives (Type I error) among rejected tests or hypotheses.

(False Discovery Rate, NCI Thesaurus)

A statistical method of partitioning a sample of data into subsets such that the analysis is initially performed on a single subset, while the other subsets are retained for subsequent use in confirming and validating the initial analysis.

(Cross Validation, NCI Thesaurus)