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ABSTRACT
There are presented in this report, seven case studies of the uses of statistics in the past and present. I do not intend these examples to be exhaustive. I intend them primarily as educational examples for readers who would like to know: What is statistics good for? Also, to encourage the readers to study detailed reports from the 13 International Year of Statistics given in the notes of this report
KEYWORDS
statistics, International Year of Statistics, Bayesian statistics, frequentist, data quality, official statistics, science of uncertainty, Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), Big Data.
