John W. Tukey as philosopher
成果类型：
Biographical-Item
署名作者：
Dempster, AP
署名单位：
Harvard University
刊物名称：
ANNALS OF STATISTICS
ISSN/ISSBN：
0090-5364
发表日期：
2002
页码：
1619-1628
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摘要：
Although not a traditional philosopher, John Tukey contributed much to our understanding of statistical science and empirical science more broadly. The former is represented by the light he shed on the relation of drawing conclusions to making decisions, and of how simple concepts like significance and confidence serve to back up or confirm empirical findings. Less successfully, he attempted inconclusively to sort out the ambiguities of R. A. Fisher's fiducial argument. His main effort, however, went to creating exploratory data analysis or EDA as a subfield of statistics with much to offer to ongoing developments in data mining and data visualization.