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Not a whole lot of meaningful statistics you can do without at least a little calculus. The integral is an essential part of nearly all inference, even in very
by baron_harkonnen 7y ago
Not a whole lot of meaningful statistics you can do without at least a little calculus. The integral is an essential part of nearly all inference, even in very trivial problems such as estimating a bias coin.
Statistics without any calc is basically applying ad hoc tests without understanding what they are actually testing. This is the kind of statistics we should be getting rid of, not expanding.