In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jan Ljung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone recall the complete quote that Tukey once made
>about "...working less on theorems and more on practical problems"?
>At least I believe that it was Tukey.
It would not surprise me; the abandonment of the use of
theory by Tukey was one of the tragedies of statistical
development.
One should work on practical problems, USING THEORY.
Even the first statistics courses should be based on
probability, not games of chance, and decision making,
which is the balancing of consequences.
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Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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