Special Section: Statistical Training and Curricular Revision What Is Statistics?
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The growth in demand for data analysis may be attributed in large part to the exponential increase in computing power and data collection capabilities. At the same time, there is a worrisome tendency for quantitative investigators or technical staff to attack problems using blunt instruments and naive attitudes. Our discipline as a whole has been gloriously productive, making available a wide variety of tools. But we have been less successful in producing easy-to-master operating instructions and
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