Chapter Contents
Ponderings
The Business of Statistics
The discipline of statistics provides the framework of balance sheets and income statements for scientific knowledge. Statistics is an accounting discipline, but instead of accounting for money, it is accounting for scientific credibility. It is the craft of weighing and balancing observational evidence. Scientific conclusions are based on experimental data in the presence of uncertainty, and statistics is the mechanism to judge the merit of those conclusions. The statistical ...
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