What’s the goal of statistics in scientific applications?
1 October 2017
the goal [of statistical inference in science] is not to infer highly probable claims (in the formal sense)* but claims which have been highly probed and have passed severe probes
Source: Deborah G. Mayo’s Performance or Probativeness? E.S. Pearson’s Statistical Philosophy | Error Statistics Philosophy
Categories: Fragments
David Bickel, statistician 
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