>The earliest statisticians would spend hours thinking about their assumptions and models because the computations themselves might have taken days.
Today we call those people Bayesians
Today we call those people Bayesians
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Kit Noussis
Thirty years ago, Ian Hacking commented on the temptation to do push-button statistics without first thinking about the theoretical side. The earliest statisticians would spend hours thinking about their assumptions and models because the computations themselves might have taken days. #rstats
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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1332871/
a lot of what they did was figuring out how to visualize the data using type (letters/numbers) and not graphs, as graphs were very hard to do, pre computer