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Philosophy of Statistics
Handbook of Philosophy of Science
Volume 7
Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay
Malcolm R. Forster
Montana State University, USA
Tsinghua University, China and
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

First edition 2011
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