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- Title
Points of significance: Importance of being uncertain.
- Authors
Krzywinski, Martin; Altman, Naomi
- Abstract
The article discusses the concept of statistics in terms of discerning the possibility of something being accurate or not. It mentions that fundamental concepts in statistics point towards one's ability to recognize the limits of their intuition when it comes to pondering over chance and probability. It also mentions that statistics can be categorized as descriptive and inferential with former summarizing the data set and later illustrating the generalization of it.
- Subjects
STATISTICS; CHANCE; PROBABILITY theory; INTUITION; INFERENTIAL statistics
- Publication
Nature Methods, 2013, Vol 10, Issue 9, p809
- ISSN
1548-7091
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nmeth.2613