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Statistics is the science of collecting, describing, and interpreting data, i.e., the tool box underlying empirical research.
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Härdle, W.K., Klinke, S., Röonz, B. (2015). Basics. In: Introduction to Statistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17704-5_1
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