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On special:Statistics, what are 'junk pages'? They seem to equal total pages minus (non-talk comma pages + talk pages). How many of these are #REDIRECTs? --Damian Yerrick

Why is the Main Page article counter different than the one in Statistics? --Chuck Smith

It's been some number of years since I studied statistics, but the terms used throughout the article did ring some bells very quietly in the back of my mind. The singular exception was ANOVA, so I followed the link to seek an explanation: Analysis of variance. That was familiar! I was then surprised by the number of hits that Google gave me about ANOVA (197,000). Still, I believe that the full expression is far more meaningful than the acronym, and I don't think that we should be encouraging the use of cute but meaningless acronyms. Eclecticology, Thursday, May 2, 2002

The three topics of statistics -- experimental design, description/exploration and inference -- are excellently described. The ongoing discussion between data miners and modellers (eg. Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures, Leo Breiman and discussants, Statistical Science 2001;16:199-231) might deserve some more attention. Johannes Hüsing



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