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This paper describes some of the nodes in history where the traditions of computing with machinery and the development of statistical methods met. It will Dive also some ideas about the driving forces which brought these developments about and why there exist fundamental connections between them.
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Sint, P. (1984). Roots of Computational Statistics. In: Havránek, T., Šidák, Z., Novák, M. (eds) Compstat 1984. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51883-6_1
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