Statistics

Analysis of player trends

(Sorted by article author.)

Starborn: play statistics. Analysis of playing Starborn (Juhana Leinonen).
Breaking Boundaries in Gaming Demographics. Statistics that show that the average customer of 1893: A World's Fair Mystery (Peter Nepstad) is approximately 50 years old, plus some conclusions about marketing.
Customer Satisfaction Survey Results, Part Two. An analysis of what people liked and disliked about 1893: A World's Fair Mystery.
Whom The Playing Changed: An Analysis of 72 Player Transcripts. Analysis of playing Whom the Telling Changed (Aaron A. Reed).
Scraping IFDB. Emily Short tests various assumptions about IF trends. January 3, 2011.
More IFDB data. Emily Short, January 3, 2011.
Take that, Mazes. Emily Short charts maze percentages by year. January 5, 2011.

Analysis of competition trends

RPG statistics

This is a different sense of "statistics" than above; this section discusses usage of stats like "strength", "wisdom", "dexterity", "hit points", etc. in RPG themed works of IF.

Statistics in interactive fiction by Jason Dyer. Discusses the use of RPG-like statistics in IF.