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What Is Statistics Really About?

I am teaching Introduction to Statistical Reasoning this fall, and while preparing for the course I found myself returning to a basic question: what is statistics really about?

Aug 30, 2026 6 min read
What Is Statistics Really About?
Bayesian Modeling for Aggregated Relational Data: A Unified Perspective
Aggregated relational data is widely collected to study social network theory. It has been used to address a variety of key problems in …
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Graph-Enabled Fast MCMC Sampling with an Unknown High-Dimensional Prior Distribution
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Toward a Taxonomy of Trust for Probabilistic Machine Learning
Probabilistic machine learning increasingly informs critical decisions in medicine, economics, politics, and beyond. We need evidence …
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Prediction scoring of data-driven discoveries for reproducible research
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Network Hawkes Process Models for Exploring Latent Hierarchy in Social Animal Interactions
Group-based social dominance hierarchies are of essential interest in animal behavior research. Studies often record aggressive …
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Next Waves in Veridical Network Embedding
Embedding nodes of a large network into a metric (e.g., Euclidean) space has become an area of active research in statistical machine …
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Diagnostics and Visualization of Point Process Models for Event Times on a Social Network
Point process models have been used to analyze interaction event times on a social network, in the hope to provides valuable insights …
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Phase-Aligned Spectral Filtering for Decomposing Spatiotemporal Dynamics
Spatiotemporal dynamics is central to a wide range of applications from climatology, computer vision to neural sciences. From temporal …
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Discovering influential variables: A method of partitions
A trend in all scientific disciplines, based on advances in technology, is the increasing availability of high dimensional data in …
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