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One definition holds that statistics is the science of using evidence, including but not limited to statistical data, to assess numerical probabilities meant for prospective assessment of uncertainty. Widespread opportunities exist for developing statistics along these lines, through practical attempts to bridge the gap from evidence to probability representations in appropriately selected domains of science. Illustrations are drawn from policy-related fields of statistics, including analysis of economic time series, small area statistics, and the statistics of employment discrimination.
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Dempster, A.P. (1987). Probability and the Future of Statistics. In: MacNeill, I.B., Umphrey, G.J., Safiul Haq, M., Harper, W.L., Provost, S.B. (eds) Advances in the Statistical Sciences: Foundations of Statistical Inference. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, vol 35. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4788-7_1
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