Statistical thinking: From Tukey to Vardi and beyond
Statistics Theory
2007-08-22 v1 Statistics Theory
Abstract
Data miners (minors?) and neural networkers tend to eschew modelling, misled perhaps by misinterpretation of strongly expressed views of John Tukey. I discuss Vardi's views of these issues as well as other aspects of Vardi's work in emision tomography and in sampling bias.
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@article{arxiv.0708.1071,
title = {Statistical thinking: From Tukey to Vardi and beyond},
author = {Larry Shepp},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.1071},
year = {2007}
}
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Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/074921707000000210 in the IMS Lecture Notes Monograph Series (http://www.imstat.org/publications/lecnotes.htm) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)