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Probability paradoxes or counter-intuitive problems

I published an article in Chance ( https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/N2ZHDVNZTCGQBQWTN5ZQ/full?target=10.1080/09332480.2024.2415844) citing flawed reasoning in these types of problems: they ask for the probability of an outome of an event that has occurred but answer with the probability of that outcome before the event has occurred. I edited Bertrand's box paradox - Wikipedia with the correct answer. But since the correct answer contradicts a history of the classical answer, my editing violates the Wikipedia:Verifiability#Exceptional claims require exceptional sourcing. How do I address that (if possible0 to correct what's currently in Wikipedia?

Thank you for any help. Kicab (talk) 16:04, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Kicab, I think you changed the problem, hence got a different answer. See the Bertrand Box article talk page. Richard Gill (talk) 11:43, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Confidence interval

I’ve tried to improve the opening passages of Confidence interval. I hope I succeeded. Richard Gill (talk) 10:59, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

RFC at Talk:Coefficient of relationship

I've relisted an RFC at Talk:Coefficient_of_relationship#RFC:_Should_this_article_have_a_table_such_as_the_one_at_Coefficient_of_relationship#Human_relationships? which didn't receive any fresh participants last time around. Mentioning here since this Wikiproject is listed on the article's talk page. Your comments there would be greatly appreciated. - MrOllie (talk) 18:26, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Provide attribution for sources of statistics.

The article on Millennials includes numerous graphs but provides no source for the data shown. This is probably violation of the open license (such as a CC-BY 4.0) granted for the use of the data. In any case, it is a disservice to readers. All statistical tables and graphics included in Wikipedia articles should include source information. Evswanson (talk) 04:33, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Help illustrate climate change information on Wikipedia and win a signed copy of The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg

Dear all

I’m very happy to let you know we are running a competition at Wikiproject Climate Change to encourage people to help improve visual information about climate change including the statistics. The competition is open until the 17th of May for all language versions of Wikipedia. The top three point scorers will each win a signed copy of The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg.

Please let me know if you have any questions

Thanks :)

John Cummings (talk) 17:24, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There is a related new proposed WikiProject

See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council#Proposing a new WikiProject Data Visualization.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Data Visualization is about not about articles on statistics but datagraphics in Wikipedia and various tasks relating to these such as the creation of new datagraphics. Prototyperspective (talk) 10:57, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Multivariate logistic regression

This draft took a lot of time for me to work on, and besides, after gaining kilos of bytes, there doesn't seem to be any more quality information to add. Could someone please review the draft for me or give me feedback? Thank you! Faster than Thunder (talk | contributions) 06:14, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]