What is Statistics The Big Picture Rob Kass Department of Statistics and The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition Carnegie Mellon University p 1 DATA regularity variability p 2 Unobserved Mechanisms Experiments or Observations DATA regularity variability EDA Conclusions p 2 Rules of Probability Probability Models Formal Statistical Methods Conclusions p 2 REAL WORLD THEORETICAL WORLD Rules of Probability Unobserved Mechanisms Experiments or Probability Models Key Features Observations parameters DATA regularity noise random variables variability Formal Statistical Methods EDA Conclusions Conclusions p 2 REAL WORLD THEORETICAL WORLD Rules of Probability Unobserved Mechanisms Experiments or Key Features Observations Probability Models parameters DATA regularity noise random variables variability Formal Algorithms Statistical Methods EDA Conclusions Conclusions p 2
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