This chapter presents my understanding, based on discussions with Dharm Narain over several months, of the dignificance he attributed to his statistical results. It is no substitute for what Dharm Narain had to say. He had endless patience to reflect on statistical results and and inimitable way of expressing what he saw in them.
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