Statistics: the basic tool of scientific research

Complexity is an ubiquitous condition. We all make decisions of varying importance every day, so one may find strange that decision making involves rather sophisticated mechanisms. However, studies have shown that most people are much poorer at decision making than they think. The understanding of the decision making processes has been the aim of scientific research for many years. 

Decision making rules act not only at a macro-level, whose results we can observe  as economic aggregates, but take a major role also at the micro-level in terms of interactions among neuronal populations. 
In both cases the comprehension of the phenomena relies on robust computational approach. In this sense, statistics offers the tools for modelling and understanding  economic (i.e., social) behaviors and neuronal activities. 

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