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I will confess that I have never had a truly satisfying conversation with a statistician. This is not completely for want of trying. Several times over the years I have taken problems of interest to statisticians, but always came back with answers like “You can’t do it that way” or “But it’s not independent,” instead of hearing “Here is the way you can handle it.”
It is easy to lie with statistics, but easier to lie without them.
– Frederick Mosteller
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Skiena, S.S. (2017). Statistical Analysis. In: The Data Science Design Manual. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55444-0_5
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