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Title: Six Statistical Senses
This article proposes a set of categories, each one representing a particular distillation of important statistical ideas. Each category is labeled a “sense” because we think of these as essential in helping every statistical mind connect in constructive and insightful ways with statistical theory, methodologies, and computation, toward the ultimate goal of building statistical phronesis. The illustration of each sense with statistical principles and methods provides a sensical tour of the conceptual landscape of statistics, as a leading discipline in the data science ecosystem. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, Volume 10 is March 2023. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1812063
PAR ID:
10390267
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application
Volume:
10
Issue:
1
ISSN:
2326-8298
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Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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