olemus
tõenäosusteooriale toetuv distsipliin, mis
rakendab statistikas matemaatilisi meetodeid
ja uurib statistika teoreetilisi aluseid

Wiktionary:
(statistics) the study of statistics from a purely mathematical standpoint, using probability theory, measure theory, linear algebra and analysis

ülevaateid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqM0oUJM2XM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_statistics

http://www.lesahoffman.com/PSYC943/mv12psyc943_lecture04.pdf

http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/~geer/mathstat.pdf

https://fac.ksu.edu.sa/sites/default/files/hogg_craig_-_introduction_to_mathematical_statistics_4th_edition1.pdf

http://people.math.umass.edu/~lavine/Book/book.pdf

http://site.iugaza.edu.ps/mriffi/files/2017/02/Textbook.pdf

vt ka
- biostatistika
- järeldusstatistika
- kirjeldav statistika, deskriptiivne statistika
- rakendusstatistika