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Statistical Analysis

Descriptive stats, trends, outliers and significance tests explained plainly.

Official Anthropicby AnthropicChecked October 18, 2026

A methods skill from Anthropic's Data plugin that brings sound statistics to everyday business questions. It explains results in business terms instead of formulas.

Who it is for

  • Analysts
  • Marketers
  • Researchers
  • Students

Prompts to try

Once the skill is installed, ask for the result in plain words. Claude picks the skill up on its own.

Prompt 1
Is the difference in conversion between these two pages significant?
Prompt 2
Find unusual days in this daily sales data
Prompt 3
Describe the distribution of order values and what it means for pricing

How to install it

In Claude Code

  1. /plugin marketplace add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
  2. /plugin install data@knowledge-work-plugins

In Claude.ai

Listed in Claude's plugin directory for Cowork: add the Data plugin from Customize > Plugins on a paid plan, and its skills also load in chat.

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How we checked it

Confirmed SKILL.md at data/skills/statistical-analysis/SKILL.md in anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins via the GitHub API; skill folder last changed 2026-03-13, repo has 29,992 stars and was pushed 2026-10-17; published in Anthropic's knowledge-work-plugins marketplace.

Source: github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/main/data/skills/statistical-analysis