Designs Of The Times, Or A Method To Their Madness
Statistical methods encompass a variety of procedures with multiple buzzwords.
I have heard many times that statistics is OK for manufacturing and quality-control chemists, but not for everyday use in research and applications labs where different things are done every day. However, if you are involved with a number, whether it is a continuous variable like temperature, an ordinal variable like performance ranking or a nominal variable like counting categories of objects, you are involved with statistics.