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One thing that sets statisticians apart from other scientists is the general public’s relative ignorance about what the field of statistics actually is. People have at least a general idea of what chemistry or biology is—but what is it exactly that statisticians do?
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Simonoff, J.S. (1996). Introduction. In: Smoothing Methods in Statistics. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4026-6_1
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