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What Are Statistics?
Overview
Statistics are numbers, but the practice of statistics is the craft of measuring imperfect knowledge. That’s one definition, and there are many more.
This chapter is a collection of short essays to get you started on the many ways of statistical thinking and to get you used to the terminology of the field.
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