说明：  统计数据分析是科学的基础。正常开放在你最喜欢的医学杂志上随便翻一页大量的统计数据：t检验，p值，比例危险模型，倾向分数，逻辑回归，最小二乘拟合，以及置信区间。统计学家提供了科学家用强大的工具来寻找秩序和意义最复杂的数据集，科学家们已经接受了它们。
(Statistical data analysis is fundamental to science. Open a random page in your favorite medical journal and you will be deluged with statistics t tests, p values, proportional hazards models, propensity scores, logistic regressions, least-squares fits, and confidence intervals. Statisticians have provided scientists with tools of enormous power to find order and meaning in the most complex of datasets, and scientists have embraced them with glee.)