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Too often, in many fields of science, the statistician is regarded as someone who comes on stage after data have been collected, performs standard calculations, delivers a verdict "Significant" or "Not Significant", and then departs.
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D. J. Finney
Born:
January 3, 1917
Died:
November 12, 2018
(aged 101)
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David John Finney was a British statistician and Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of Edinburgh.
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