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There are also numbers. Sometimes numbers can describe reality, or levels behind reality, better than words. Words are tied to obejcts; numbers can better describe tendencies. This section was once larger. What remains is: (1) a practical significance measure that one can compute mentally while at a Department meeting, (2) a remnant of a former Statistics primer, saved because several statistics classes seem to have linked to it, and (3) brief accounts of some major statistical figures, provided just for company. And if you should graph the birthdays of these statisticians, you might see a tendency which is perhaps of interest in itself.
- Practical
- An Easy Significance Test (from WSP v2)
- Theoretical
- The Poisson Distribution (all that remains of our old Statistics Primer)
- Personal
- Tales of Statisticians (including Jacob Bernouilli, who pictured above)
The difficulty with statistics is that the events with which it deals are neither fixed nor unfixed; they have a likeliest mode of occurrence. Lucien LeCam described it well.
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