Is statistics too difficult?

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 497-513

  Hampel, Frank ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Astronomy; Asymptotics; Field ornithology; Interpretation of mathematical results; Long range correlations; Mathematical and applied statistics; Model choice; Robust statistics; Statistical paradigms; Uses and misuses of statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032221158     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3315772     Document Type: Article

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