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The advent and proliferation of computing technology is continually making us rethink the meaning of the adjectives ‘large’, ‘extensive’, and ‘complex’, as in large data, extensive computing, and complex computational algorithms. Our appetite for information has been enhanced to such a degree that our systems for digesting it are often under strain, and they crave for the substance of information to be presented in a more condensed manner.
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Longford, N.T. (1995). Inference about variation. In: Models for Uncertainty in Educational Testing. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8463-2_1
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