July 18, 2007

Black Swans and the Domains of Statistics

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TBS) is only critical of statistics, statisticians, or users of statistics in a very narrow (but consequential) set of circumstances. It was written by a veteran practitioner of uncertainty whose profes-

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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The American Statistician

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Givaudan (Switzerland)

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