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The purpose of statistical analysis is to extract and assess the information contained in data which has arisen in many diverse situations. Thus, the methodology of statistics has been developed to address a wide variety of problems, while the theory of statistics organizes and studies this methodology. The evolution of both the theory and the methods is influenced by new situations and new forms of measurement.
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Andrews, D.F., Herzberg, A.M. (1985). Introduction. In: Data. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5098-2_1
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