The goals of the paper are: (1) to suggest that library and information science already depend heavily on statistical techniques; (2) to present examples of the need for greater knowledge of ...

Both inferential and descriptive statistics are included in order to uncover epistatic effects as well as heterogeneity.

It is sometimes suggested that there are two kinds of reasoning: inferential reasoning and non-inferential reasoning. However, it is not entirely clear what the difference between these two kinds of ...