Inference (statistics)

Quality:

Statistical inference - process of deducing properties of an underlying probability distribution by analysis of data. Article “Inference (statistics)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 18.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Inference (statistics)”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 680 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 73 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3893 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1495 in March 2016
• Global: #250 in June 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4390 in April 2013
• Global: #16503 in February 2008

There are 27 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, 2026 (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) Statistical inference		65.7453
2	Ukrainian (uk) Індуктивна статистика		54.3773
3	Armenian (hy) Արտածական վիճակագրություն		47.313
4	Vietnamese (vi) Suy luận thống kê		46.0824
5	Portuguese (pt) Inferência estatística		44.603
6	Galician (gl) Inferencia estatística		40.7145
7	Azerbaijani (az) Statistik nəticəçıxarma		33.1872
8	Catalan (ca) Inferència estadística		29.3394
9	German (de) Statistische Inferenz		28.5004
10	Hebrew (he) הסקה סטטיסטית		27.9577

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Statistical inference		4 994 579
2	Spanish (es) Estadística inferencial		4 186 229
3	Italian (it) Inferenza statistica		567 261
4	French (fr) Inférence statistique		433 680
5	Japanese (ja) 推計統計学		433 299
6	Portuguese (pt) Inferência estatística		419 198
7	Indonesian (id) Statistika inferensial		282 797
8	Chinese (zh) 推論統計學		178 699
9	Persian (fa) استنباط آماری		149 024
10	Polish (pl) Wnioskowanie statystyczne		134 242

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Statistical inference		4 955
2	Spanish (es) Estadística inferencial		929
3	German (de) Statistische Inferenz		513
4	French (fr) Inférence statistique		499
5	Italian (it) Inferenza statistica		441
6	Chinese (zh) 推論統計學		338
7	Japanese (ja) 推計統計学		333
8	Portuguese (pt) Inferência estatística		209
9	Persian (fa) استنباط آماری		162
10	Polish (pl) Wnioskowanie statystyczne		143

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Statistical inference		211
2	Spanish (es) Estadística inferencial		72
3	Italian (it) Inferenza statistica		57
4	French (fr) Inférence statistique		55
5	Japanese (ja) 推計統計学		30
6	Arabic (ar) استدلال إحصائي		23
7	Portuguese (pt) Inferência estatística		21
8	Chinese (zh) 推論統計學		19
9	Catalan (ca) Inferència estadística		17
10	German (de) Statistische Inferenz		17

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Ukrainian (uk) Індуктивна статистика		2
2	Arabic (ar) استدلال إحصائي		1
3	Galician (gl) Inferencia estatística		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) Statistik nəticəçıxarma		0
5	Catalan (ca) Inferència estadística		0
6	German (de) Statistische Inferenz		0
7	English (en) Statistical inference		0
8	Spanish (es) Estadística inferencial		0
9	Basque (eu) Inferentzia estatistiko		0
10	Persian (fa) استنباط آماری		0

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

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