Event
James A. Hanley, PhD, 平特五不中 - Epidemiology Biostatistics and Occupational Health
Tuesday, November 8, 2016 15:30to16:30
Purvis Hall
Room 24, 1020 avenue des Pins Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 1A2, CA
The first pillar of statistical wisdom.
This talk will provide an introduction to the first of the pillars in Stephen Stigler's book The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom, namely 'Aggregation'. It will focus on early instances of the sample mean in scientific work, on the early error distributions, and on how their 'centres' were fitted.