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Descriptive Statistics

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Considering the First Lecture as the best opportunity to give the audience a short account of the subject of the studies – we shall follow a very effective technique invented many years ago by a Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969): a dialogue between the Student and the Author.

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Laudański, L.M. (2013). Descriptive Statistics. In: Between Certainty and Uncertainty. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 31. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25697-4_4

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