ぎょーむ日誌 2003-10-04
2003 年 10 月 04 日 (土)
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シウリザクラ葉動態データベイスまわりの整備
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推定結果と連動させた葉数減衰計算まで作れるかと思ったけど，
今日はそこまで到達できなかった．
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[今日の素読]
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Salsburg, D. 2001.
``
The Lady Tasting Tea
-- How statistics revolutionized science
in the twentieth century''.
Owl Book.
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Chapter 14. The Mozart of Mathematics
- Afternote on the failures of Soviet statistics
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With th coming of the Stalin terror in the 1930s,
the cold hand of orthodox Communist theory fell on
these activities. The theoreticians of the party
(the theologians of their religion according to
Saints Marx and Lenin, to quote Chester Bliss; see
chapter 8) looked upon statistics as a branch of social
science. Under Communist doctrine, all social science
was subordinate to central planning.
The mathematical concept of a random variable lies
at the heart of statistical methods.
The Russian word for
random variable
translates as ``accidental magnitude.''
To the central planners and theoreticians,
this was an insult. All industrial and social activity
in the Soviet Union was planned according to the theories
of Marx and Lenin. Nothing could occur by accident.
Accidental magnitudes might describe things observed
in capitalist economies -- not in Russia.
The applications of mathematical statistics were
quickly stilfled. S.S. Zarkovic, in a historical review
of Soviet statistics published in
The Annals of Mathematical Statistics
in 1956, described this with some delicacy:
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Perhaps there is a lesson to be learned from this.
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