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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. (1990). Statistical Models: The Experimenter’s View. In: Statistics in Scientific Investigation. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4290-9_3
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