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by mitchtbaum 3701 days ago
"Statistics", like "Science", is only a name which came much later than each field's and approach's discovery, use, and study that its followers want to believe make it up, eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_probability_and_st...

If you want to see which institutions they serve, you can look deeper into etymology and environments where they emerged.