Mechanism
What process could have generated the observations in front of us?
The idea
From an invisible process to visible data.
Statistical reasoning connects what we observe to the process that may have produced it. Simulation lets us examine that connection.
Data
What patterns can we see, and which features might simply be chance?
Simulation
What changes when we repeat the process under controlled assumptions?
The series
Statistical laboratories
Each laboratory begins with a question and develops the statistical ideas needed to investigate it.