http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/statistic tag posts with statistic Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:19:56 -0800 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:19:56 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/102762/Bikes-per-household Bicycle per household statistics? I'm doing a presentation on bicycle commuting and I'm trying to find some North American bike ownership statistics. Help would be greatly appreciated.<br> <br> What is the average number of bicycles owned by a North American household? tag:ask.metafilter.com,2008:site.102762 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:19:56 -0800 bicycles ownership household statistic BeaverTerror http://ask.metafilter.com/91015/Translation-of-chinese-math-related-words Help a chinese student: I am teaching elementary statistic to a young chinese , but I have an hard time explaining him words such as : average, mean, median, mode, quotient, ratio, standard deviation etc. I am looking for a list of math/science words english<>chine, a mini vocabulary (doc/pdf/whatever) as I don't trust online translation programs too much.</> tag:ask.metafilter.com,2008:site.91015 Fri, 09 May 2008 14:58:22 -0800 chinese statistic mathematics elpapacito http://ask.metafilter.com/83113/How-small-is-12315-million If you wanted to analogize 123 reports of death out of a population of 15,375,000 to some other statistic, what statistic would you use? The point is to make the amount of defects seem small. Something like, more drivers die in a hour on US roads than 123/15 million. tag:ask.metafilter.com,2008:site.83113 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:12:33 -0800 analogization statistic lockestockbarrel