# Tukey 1980: We Need Both Exploratory and Confirmatory

> John W. Tukey, 1980. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The inquiry-framework report cites it on keeping exploratory and confirmatory work…

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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.

**Voynich Manuscript** Articledoi: **[10.1080/00031305.1980.10482706](https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.1980.10482706)** Checked against the original0

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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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