The main interest of physical statistics lies in fact not so much in the distribution of the phenomena in space, but rather in their succession in time. (Richard von Mises)

The main interest of physical statistics lies in fact not so much in the distribution of the phenomena in space, but rather in their succession in time.

Richard von Mises

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