Rule of succession

Laplace–Bayes estimator - in probability theory, the estimator (?+1)∕(?+2) for the probability of success of the next run of an experiment which one has repeated ? times with ? successes. Article “Rule of succession” in English Wikipedia has 29.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.56 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Rule of succession”, its content was written by 68 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 117 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 36 times in English Wikipedia and cited 50 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #58030 in February 2005
• Global: #108778 in February 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #178344 in March 2020
• Global: #253391 in March 2020

There are 5 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Rule of succession		29.6449
2	Catalan (ca) Regla de Laplace		24.8945
3	Chinese (zh) 拉普拉斯接续法则		9.2985
4	French (fr) Estimateur de Laplace–Bayes		6.6082
5	Spanish (es) Regla de sucesión		6.0323

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Rule of succession" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rule of succession		364 216
2	Spanish (es) Regla de sucesión		190 953
3	Catalan (ca) Regla de Laplace		14 166
4	French (fr) Estimateur de Laplace–Bayes		7 679
5	Chinese (zh) 拉普拉斯接续法则		227

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Rule of succession" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rule of succession		1 648
2	Spanish (es) Regla de sucesión		166
3	Catalan (ca) Regla de Laplace		95
4	French (fr) Estimateur de Laplace–Bayes		67
5	Chinese (zh) 拉普拉斯接续法则		32

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Rule of succession" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rule of succession		68
2	Spanish (es) Regla de sucesión		25
3	Catalan (ca) Regla de Laplace		12
4	French (fr) Estimateur de Laplace–Bayes		11
5	Chinese (zh) 拉普拉斯接续法则		1

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Rule of succession" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Regla de sucesión		1
2	Catalan (ca) Regla de Laplace		0
3	English (en) Rule of succession		0
4	French (fr) Estimateur de Laplace–Bayes		0
5	Chinese (zh) 拉普拉斯接续法则		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Rule of succession" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Rule of succession		36
2	Spanish (es) Regla de sucesión		8
3	Catalan (ca) Regla de Laplace		3
4	French (fr) Estimateur de Laplace–Bayes		3
5	Chinese (zh) 拉普拉斯接续法则		0

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Regla de Laplace
en	English Rule of succession
es	Spanish Regla de sucesión
fr	French Estimateur de Laplace–Bayes
zh	Chinese 拉普拉斯接续法则

Best Rank

English: #178344 03.2020

Global: #253391 03.2020

Best Rank

English: #58030 02.2005

Global: #108778 02.2014

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