“The statistician knows...that in nature there never was a normal distribution, there never was a straight line, yet with normal and linear assumptions, known to be false, he can often derive results ...
Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B (1960-2002), Vol. 30, No. 1/2 (Jun., 1968), pp. 1-4 (4 pages) The solutions of the second degree difference ...