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The skilled statistician has a portfolio – parametric and nonparametric, frequentist and Bayesian (as tools, not religions).

Anscombe’s quartet taught us that very different datasets produce identical summary statistics. Always plot.

Fundamentals of Statistical Thinking: Tools and Applications

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Data alone are just numbers. It is the statistical model —our assumptions about how the data were generated—that allows us to generalize, predict, or decide.