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Keynes thought that within statistical theory one should carefully distinguish between two approaches, the one aiming merely at the statistical description of events and the other, more ambitious, aiming at drawing a statistical inference (or, as he also called it, an ‘inductive correlation’).1
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© 1988 Anna M. Carabelli
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Carabelli, A.M. (1988). Statistical Inference. In: On Keynes’s Method. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19414-8_7
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