The excerpt discusses understanding random phenomena in survival and prediction, indicating the value of statistical thinking.
Do we live in a random universe? Does it help to think like a statistician? A confident “yes” on both counts, though of course I’m biased, having spent a career helping other scientists make sure their data is well understood. Here we’ll consider two especially random phenomena, survival and prediction.
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Bradley Efron (2026) studied this question.
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