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Data analysis involves both manipulation, via formulas and computations, and interpretation of the results. During the period immediately following World War II, particularly in the United States, statistical theory was consumed with the logic of statistical inference and decision-making. Against this backdrop, John Tukey revolted.
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The normal distribution is also called the Gaussian distribution.
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Of all the values \(A\) in the function \(f(x)=A^x\), the value \(A=e\) makes the derivative of \(f(x)\) exactly equal to \(f(x)\) itself. For other values of \(A\) a constant must be introduced, which would make calculus-based formulas more complicated.
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See also the related work on power laws by Anderson and Schooler (1991).
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Kass, R.E., Eden, U.T., Brown, E.N. (2014). Exploring Data. In: Analysis of Neural Data. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9602-1_2
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