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MR. D. V. LINDLEY1 distinguishes between the curve of best fit and the regression curve on the ground that the former gives the best estimate of the relation between the true values of the variables, while the latter gives the best estimate of the true value of one variable from the observed value of the other. He thus provides a convenient opportunity to raise a question that I have long wanted to raise, namely, whether there is any experimental evidence for this and similar deductions from statistical theory.
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Nature, 158, 273 (1946).
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CAMPBELL, N. Experiment and Theory in Statistics. Nature 158, 521 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158521c0
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