"Portuguese Statistics for Dummies" ON SALE again!!


"Luis A. Afonso" wrote:
A *body* that does not know that the null Hypotheses rarely can be proved, that about the Birthday Matching is in the XVIII century, that recommend to make pretests to *validate* conditions,

That Portuguese sentence is a concatenation of many sentences.
But the gist of the idea is that Portuguese Statistics is firmly
grounded on mathematical probability of the XVIII Century.

No DATA is relevant. No DATA is ever needed. No Assumption
in any model needs to be validated. You only have to ASSUME
the conditions to be true.

Wunderbar!

Unfortunately, this is the 21st Century already -- unbeknownst to
Luis A. Afonso. Sometime in the middle of the 20th Century was
born the idea about VALIDATION of statistical assumptions that
makes sense to any thinking Applied Statistician.

But of course to the 18th century mind of one deeply buried in
"Portuguese Statistics for Dummies", that is too much an
advancement of thought.


_______licas (Luis A. Afonso)

Luis A. Afonso, Statistics is NOT for you. Trust me. Go buy you
a bottle of cheap Portuguese wine, and go back to your Qbasic
programming and join some QBASIC computing group -- that's
where YOU belong.

-- Reef Fish Bob.

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