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Data Have No Meaning when Separated from their Context
Author(s) -
Lillestøl Jostein
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9639.00009
Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , context (archaeology) , subject (documents) , computer science , data science , psychology , world wide web , history , archaeology , psychotherapist
It is argued that many statisticians teach their subject without much concern about the context in which their methods will be used. This issue is illustrated by the analysis of data on cashier fraud at a supermarket. Here different contexts lead to different questions and different modes of analysis.