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The development of modern science is marked by a pronounced tendency toward indeterminism. A somewhat brutal description of this tendency may be stat… - Jerzy Neyman
" "The development of modern science is marked by a pronounced tendency toward indeterminism. A somewhat brutal description of this tendency may be states as follows. In relation to some phenomena, instead of trying to establish a (deterministic) functional relationship between a variable y, and some other variables x<sub>1</sub>, x<sub>2</sub>, ... , x<sub>n</sub>, we try to build a (stochastic or probabilistic) model of these phenomena, predicting frequencies with which, in specified conditions, the same variable y will assume all of its possible values.
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About Jerzy Neyman
Jerzy Neyman (April 16, 1894 – August 5, 1981), born Jerzy Spława-Neyman, was a Polish mathematician and statistician, who introduced the use of confidence intervals into statistical hypothesis testing.
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Jerzy Splawa-Neyman
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Yuri Czeslawovich
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