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We Need Both Exploratory and Confirmatory
John W. Tukey, 1980. The American Statistician.
A short essay arguing that science needs both open-ended exploration of data and carefully planned confirmatory analysis, and that exploration is an attitude more than a set of techniques.
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The inquiry-framework report cites it on keeping exploratory and confirmatory work separate.
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Cite it
Tukey, J. W. (1980). We Need Both Exploratory and Confirmatory. The American Statistician. https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.1980.10482706
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Tukey, John W.. “We Need Both Exploratory and Confirmatory.” The American Statistician (1980). https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.1980.10482706.