I am out of the country and will reply more fully to you (privately) when I return. But briefly, and subject to my possible misunderstanding/misinterpretation of your specification, I would say both your examples illustrate exactly what I said. In the first, the clea
On Tue, May 6, 2025, 14:23 Kevin Zembower via R-help <r-help@r-project.org> wrote: > Thank you to everyone who responded. I gained a lot of insight into > statistical methods and the nature of statistical thinking. I replied > to some people privately, to limit the traffic on this OT question. > > And thank you for the patience of all who were annoyed by this off- > topic question, and who didn't write to complain. I promise to limit > off-topic questions in the future. > > -Kevin > > On Mon, 2025-05-05 at 15:17 +0000, Kevin Zembower wrote: > > I marked this posting as Off Topic because it doesn’t specifically > > apply to R and Statistics, but is rather a general question about > > statistics and the teaching of statistics. If this is annoying to > > you, > > I apologize. > > > > As I wrap up my work in my beginning statistics course, I’d like to > > ask > > a philosophical question regarding statistics. > > > > In my course, we’ve learned two different ways to solve statistical > > problems: simulations, using bootstraps and randomized distributions, > > and theoretical methods, using Normal (z) and t-distributions. We’ve > > learned that both systems solve all the questions we’ve asked of > > them, > > and that both give comparable answers. Out of six chapters that we’ve > > studied in our textbook, the first four only used simulation methods. > > Only the last two used theoretical methods. > > > > My questions are: > > > > 1) Why don’t professional statisticians settle on one or the other, > > and > > just apply that system to their problems and work? What advantage > > does > > one system have over the other? > > > > 2) As beginning statistics students, why is it important for us to > > learn both systems? Do you think that beginning statistics students > > will still be learning both systems in the future? > > > > Thank you very much for your time and effort in answering my > > questions. > > I really appreciate the thoughts of the members of this group. > > > > -Kevin > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
