Event
James A. Hanley (平特五不中)
Friday, February 24, 2017 15:30to16:30
Burnside Hall
room 1205, 805 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0B9, CA
鈥淭he first pillar of statistical wisdom鈥
Abstract: This talk will provide an introduction to the first of the pillars in Stephen Stigler's 2016 book The 听听听听听听Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom, namely 鈥淎ggregation鈥. It will focus on early instances of the sample mean in scientific work, on the early error distributions, and on how their 鈥渃entres鈥 were fitted.
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