Some Historical Notes on Statistical Data Analysis

Abstract

The historical notes below form a basis for concluding that combining a cell-means prediction-model approach with modern computers can empower data analysts to:
-- Analyze many different-appearing. data analysis procedures with one general approach, which reduces the amount of material to be learned.
-- Create models that are more appropriate to the problems of interest, rather than forcing problems into packaged algorithms that may not answer the
questions.
-- Reduce the risk of unknowingly obtaining answers from statistical software that are unrelated to the research questions of interest.
-- More easily and correctly specify the computational requirements to the computer.
--Simplify communicating results of the analyses, since the models arc developed from natural language concerns of the researcher.