https://www.livescience.com/21456-em...efinition.html
Think of it as large amounts of data that unabashedly and without bias points to conclusions made from facts. For example, in firing 60,000 rounds total of M855A1 through 10 identical rifles, we conclude the mean rounds between failure equals xxx, with yyy percent of those failures being attributable to the host weapon, and zzz being attributable to out of spec ammo. Just a made up example.
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