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Re:What are the most important statistical ideas of the past... by andyxor on Monday March 08, 2021 @01:05PM (#26389202)
Causality, i.e. Causal inference & Graphical Models, see the work by Judea Pearl, he pretty much singlehandedly pioneered the field.

https://www.amazon.com/Causality-Reasoning-Inference-Judea-P...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality#Theories

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_model

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Re:What are the most important statistical ideas of the past... by ncmncm on Monday March 08, 2021 @03:00PM (#26390723)
Single-handedly pioneered reviving the field, but yes.

Pearl is very careful to give his deceased predecessors their due credit. That their work was suppressed will always be a blot on the leading names in statistics in the past century.

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