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Are statisticians cold‐blooded bosses? a new perspective on the ‘old’ concept of statistical population
Author(s) -
Lu Yonggang,
Henning Kevin S. S.
Publication year - 2012
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/j.1467-9639.2012.00524.x
Subject(s) - statistical thinking , perspective (graphical) , simple (philosophy) , pragmatism , style (visual arts) , computer science , statistical analysis , epistemology , population , statistical model , management science , data science , econometrics , artificial intelligence , mathematics education , statistics , psychology , sociology , mathematics , geography , philosophy , demography , economics , archaeology
Spurred by recent writings regarding statistical pragmatism, we propose a simple, practical approach to introducing students to a new style of statistical thinking that models nature through the lens of data‐generating processes, not populations.