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- W39581241 abstract "Statisticians deal professionally with symbols. Ultimately our symbols stand for, or relate to, sacks of potatoes, political opinions, illnesses of people that is, to relatively material, palpable objects, to actual things that should always be kept in mind. Yet in abstraction and abstruseness, statistical discussions, like those of any scientific practice, may be far away from potatoes, presidential nominees, and peritonitis morbidity. The symbols we use are, in the first place, numbers, but numbers alone are insufficient. For sensible statistical treatment they require some kind of theoretical, mathematical coherence, however simple and however tacit it may be. Thus even to add two different numbers of gallons of oil presumes disjointness of objects, the same unit of measurement, and an additive scale. In even slightly more complex circumstances, sensible treatment of the numbers may rest on a complex set of assumptions about statistical independence, approximate normality of distribution, and other properties of considerable abstractness. So, starting with numbers, we are inexorably led to the abstract, mathematical side of statistics call it, for brevity and at the risk of distortion, the side of formulas. It includes formulas, taken literally, together with much mathematics from the simple to the deep, and a range of philosophical thought as well. There is a third side of statistics that corresponds to a third kind of symbol: the side of words. Numbers, formulas, and words make" @default.
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- W39581241 title "LANGUAGE: Formulas, Numbers, Words: Statistics in Prose" @default.
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