What is Statistics?
I recently shared a bit of the history of The Science of Data Analysis. I thought I would follow that up with a quick chalk talk titled “What is Statistics?” (link)
The Science of Data Analysis
I am re-reading from the great statistician John W. Tukey’s paper: Tukey, John W. “The Future of Data Analysis.” Ann. Math. Statist. 33 (1962), no. 1, pp. 1–67. doi:10.1214/aoms/1177704711. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoms/1177704711 I’ve taken the liberty of pulling out some quotes that are very relevant to the usual “data science is not […]