The Relationship Between Epidemiology and Statistics

Of course, the rural life style cannot explain both very high and very low incidents of kidney cancer. Th key factor is not that the counties were rural or predominantly republican. The main lesson to be learned is about the difficult relationship between our mind and statistics system. A random event, by definition, does not lend itself to explanation. But collections of random events do behave in a highly regular fashion.

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