Ontology

STATO

The Statistical Methods Ontology

STATO is the statistical methods ontology. It contains concepts and properties related to statistical methods, probability distributions and other concepts related to statistical analysis, including relationships to study designs and plots.

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B83

FAIR 44/48

Version 2026-04-20

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagestato-ontology.org Repositorygithub.com DownloadCanonical file / PURL Browse in OLSEMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup ServiceBrowse in BioPortalNCBO BioPortalBrowse in OBO FoundryOBO Foundry registry

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
OLS (EMBL-EBI)stato2026-04-201,053109925 Oct 2026
TIB Terminology Servicestato2025-02-231,003117924 Feb 2025
OBO Dashboardstato2026-04-20818——14 May 2026

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/stato/stato.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/stato/releases/2026-04-20/stato.owl

Languages en en-us fr

Imports from (15)
APOLLO_SV BFO CHEBI CL GO IAO NCBITaxon OBI OGMS PATO PR RO SO UBERON UO

Reused by (23)
ADO APOLLO_SV CL DIDEO GECKO GENEPIO MS NGBO OBCS ONTOAVIDA PCL PCO BMONT CAO ENM EUPATH GMHO ONS OOSTT PSDO SCDO SEPIO VALUESETS

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
no
ROBOT report
0 errors · 24 warnings · 395 info
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
8,291 · 17.73% entities reused

Also registered as
aberowl: STATO bioportal: STATO fairsharing: FAIRsharing.na5xp obofoundry: stato ols: stato ontobee: STATO tib.ts: stato wikidata.entity: Q83428681

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR9/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)purl.obolibrary.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)6: OLS, TIB, BioPortal, OBO Foundry, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+5
  • Citable reference (F2)no reference publication listed0
A Accessible FAIR12/12
  • Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
  • Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)download HTTP 200+6
  • Metadata persists in a registry (A2)OBO Foundry, Bioregistry+3
I Interoperable FAIR12/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)imports 15: apollo_sv, bfo, chebi, cl, go, iao, ncbitaxon, obi…+4
R Reusable FAIR11/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 3.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2026-04-20 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 10/13 checks pass+2
Q Ontology consistency & quality18/20
  • Logical consistencyconsistent, 0 unsatisfiable classes (OBO Dashboard)+10
  • OWL 2 DL profileoutside OWL 2 DL0
  • Upper-ontology alignmentimports BFO+3
  • Standard relations (RO)imports RO+1
  • ROBOT report: no errors0 errors+2
  • ROBOT report: warning density24 warnings / 818 classes = 0.03+1
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan yet; ROBOT report has 0 errors+1
M Maintenance12/16
  • Recency2026-10-05 → 0.7 months (≤ 3 months)+10
  • Release cadence (12 months)1 release (GitHub releases)+2
U Community adoption9/16
  • Documented adopting projects3 projects+4
  • Reused by other ontologies23: ado, apollo_sv, cl, dideo, gecko, genepio…+3
  • Community signalmax(stars 46 → 2, citations 0 → 0)+2
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
  • Time since last activity0.1 years → 4 × max(0, 0.1 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0

FAIR subtotal 44/48 · earned 83/100 = 83/100 → grade B

Community adoption 3

  • bioconductor.org

    struct (Statistics in R using Class-based Templates), Struct integrates with the STATistics Ontology to ensure consistent reporting and maximizes semantic interoperability

    Source: OBO Foundry registry
  • fevir.net

    Scientific Evidence Code System (SEVCO) on the FEvIR platform. The FEvIR Platform includes many Builder Tools to create FHIR Resources without requiring expertise in FHIR or JSON, and Converter Tools to convert structured data to FHIR Re…

    Source: OBO Foundry registry
  • github.com

    OBCS

    Source: OBO Foundry registry

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History & changes 1 run

History starts with the first archived run; changes appear after the next evaluation.

RunScoreFAIRVersion evaluatedTermsSnapshot
26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC83 B442026-04-201,053JSON

Provenance

Every fact on this page was fetched automatically. Each row shows where it came from and when. If a source fails, the last good value is kept and marked “carried forward”.

FactSourceRetrieved
Homepage link check (HTTP 200)stato-ontology.org26 Oct 2026, 03:23 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:23 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org26 Oct 2026, 03:23 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 03:23 UTC
Git refs (commit a5910e6, latest tag v2026-04-20)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:23 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:23 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 03:23 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
TIB Terminology Service metricsservice.tib.eu26 Oct 2026, 03:23 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 03:23 UTC
OBO Dashboard (checked 14 May 2026)dashboard.obofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC

Run 2026-10-26T02-37-38Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.4 · entry.json · run snapshot