“[…] the uncontrolled causes which may influence the result are always strictly innumerable.”

— Ronald Fisher , book The Design of Experiments

The Design of Experiments (section II.9, eighth edition, 1971, Hafner Publishing Company, New York) as quoted by George Casella in Statistical Design (p. 18, 2008, Springer).
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