I'd say that without a tool like R you cannot learn statistics.
I believe Fisher and a few others managed to get by without it.
Fair point. Maybe it should have said " without a tool like R *I* cannot learn statistics"
Or even "for me, 'understanding concept X' == 'coding X up in R and playing with it' "
(maybe Fisher had some R-like tool hardwired into his neural apparatus).
The other point I was trying to make was that R is a natural language for
the expression of statistical ideas, and I usually interpret my inability to express
a statistical idea in R idiom as a symptom of not understanding the stats.
Once I understand the concepts, coding them up is easy, usually.
The CLT is a case in point, and I've been playing with the Extreme Value Distribution recently
in the same way.
best wishes
rksh
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