\begin{quote}
``Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data
obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations
of natural phenomena. In this definition `natural phenomena' includes
all the happenings of the external world, whether human or not.''\\
{\noindent
M.G. Kendall, 1943\\
page 2 of \cite{kendall:vol1}.
}
\end{quote}