• DOI:10.2307/3315772
Corpus ID: 53117661

Is statistics too difficult

@article{Hampel1998IsST,
  title={Is statistics too difficult},
  author={F. Hampel},
  journal={Canadian Journal of Statistics-revue Canadienne De Statistique},
  year={1998},
  volume={26},
  pages={497-513}
}

F. Hampel

Published 1998

Mathematics

Canadian Journal of Statistics-revue Canadienne De Statistique

By means of several historical examples, it is shown that it does not appear to be easy to build bridges between rigorous mathematics and reasonable data-analytic procedures for scientific measurements. After mentioning both some positive and some negative aspects of statistics, a formal framework for statistics is presented which contains the concept formation, derivation of results and interpretation of mathematical statistics as three essential steps. The difficulties especially of… CONTINUE READING

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