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The idea was introduced in Chapter 1 that statistics provides a means of using data collected in a study together with other factual information to gain knowledge of the population or process from which the information was collected. There is a formal structure by which statistics is employed for this purpose, and it involves the construction of statistical models.
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McPherson, G. (2001). Statistical Models: The Experimenter’s View. In: Applying and Interpreting Statistics. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3435-5_3
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