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“Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics. Now I agree that the physicist, the chemist, the engineer, and the statistician can never know too much mathematics, but their objectives should be better physics, better chemistry, better engineering, and in the case of statistics, better scientific investigation. Whether in any given study this implies more or less mathematics is incidental.”

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George E. P. Box
George E. P. Box

George E. P. Box was an outstanding statistician known for his contributions to statistical modeling, experimental design, and computer science. His work has had a profound impact on modern statistics and data analysis. more

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