(statistics) The difficulty in drawing inferences from cross-cultural data, due to the statistical phenomenon of autocorrelation.

A branching stochastic process arising from the statistical investigation of the extinction of family names, which are modelled as patrilineal, while offspring are randomly either male or female, and names become extinct if holders die without male descendants. It is useful in understanding human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroups.

plural of Galton-Watson process

A device in which small objects tumble through a set of pegs, coming to rest in a pattern that approximates a normal distribution.

plural of Galton board

plural of Galton's whistle

Synonym of dog whistle