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contingency table

Summary

contingency table ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (668 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • contingency table is credited with the discovery of Karl Pearson[2].
  • contingency table is a type of table[3].
  • contingency table's Commons category is recorded as Contingency tables[4].
  • contingency table's said to be the same as is recorded as pivot table[5].
  • contingency table began on 1904[6].
  • contingency table's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Contingency table[7].
  • contingency table's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[8].

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Definition and Type

contingency table is a type of table[3].

Why It Matters

contingency table ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (668 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

Related Entities

Karl Pearson

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  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Discoverer or inventor → Karl Pearson
    Said to be the same as → pivot table
    Start time → +1904-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Subclass of → —
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007557833205171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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