The Overrated Importance of Statistics in Research
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By way of introduction, let me say that I have been teaching statistics at the graduate and undergraduate levels for more than 25 years (my, how time flies!). That experience has helped me realize that while statistical training seems to arouse the most anxiety of any specific course of study related to research, it appears to me that the value of statistics as it is taught today is far overrated, compared to the amount of time we force students to engage in a systematic study of it. To put it bluntly, the time cost versus the benefit seems to weigh heavily on the side of cost.
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تاریخ انتشار 2001