Talk:Ancillary statistic

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Header added. —Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 00:56, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The definition is by all means correct. But the sentence is a liitle bit too complicated to understand. Could some one give a clearer definition?

Hope it’s clearer now!

—Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 00:56, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

-- are used without being explained. Can the meaning of such phrases be stated more formally? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.40.68.40 (talk) 21:46, 13 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]