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I'm having a hard time understanding how statistics could be considered an empirical science, and really what bearing that term has on statistics at all. Can yo

• closed 9y ago
  Not OP, but I would say that when statistics acts like a subfield of mathematics, then it is an art. However, if we consider judging whether a statistical method will be useful for the world as a part of statistics, then that part sometimes is an empirical science. That is, the statement "I should use X technique because it performs Y% well" is sometimes an an empirical statement.
• cozzyd 9y ago
  One simple example is that the power of a statistical test is usually modeled using mock experiments.