Methodology in Practice: Statistical Misspecification Testing.
The growing availability of computer power and statistical software has greatly increased the ease with which practitioners apply statistical methods, but this has not been accompanied by attention to checking the assumptions on which these methods are based. At the same time, disagreements about in...
| Published in: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 71; no. 5; pp. 1007 - 1026 |
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Cambridge University Press
Dec2004
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