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“The statistician knows...that in nature there never was a normal distribution, there never was a straight line, yet with normal and linear assumptions, known to be false, he can often derive results which match, to a useful approximation, those found in the real world.”1

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  1. Naomi Altman is a Professor of Statistics at The Pennsylvania State University.,
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  2. Martin Krzywinski is a staff scientist at Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre.,
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Altman, N., Krzywinski, M. Simple linear regression.Nat Methods 12, 999–1000 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3627

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