By the 1930s, statisticians and models built on statistical reasoning had helped to resolve these differences and to produce the neo-Darwinian modern evolutionary synthesis.
Most important, the formal statistical reasoning that can be applied to a-priori hypotheses is strictly invalid for exploratory analysis.
The prosecutor's fallacy is a fallacy of statistical reasoning, typically used by the prosecution to argue for the guilt of a defendant during a criminal trial.
The development of statistical reasoning was closely associated with the development of inductive logic and the scientific method.
Professor Pinker was particularly eager to see a required course in statistical and analytic reasoning, to instill the habit of critical thinking.
Experiments in cognitive science and social psychology have revealed a wide variety of biases in areas such as statistical reasoning, social attribution, and memory.
His work is very wide ranging covering such topics as economic theory, statistical reasoning, Marxian value theory, problems of social coordination.
Liar's poker is a bar game that combines statistical reasoning with bluffing, and is played with the eight-digit serial number on a U.S. dollar bill.
The Supreme Court of California set aside the conviction, criticising the statistical reasoning and disallowing the way the decision was put to the jury.
The argument is based on both bad history and sloppy statistical reasoning.