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- Statistics show that teen pregnancy drops off significantly after age 2
- The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since the statistician can…
- The statistics requested respecting the number of crimes that have been solved by tracing the firearm back to the registered owner are not kept at…
- Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.
- He is so efficient. He seems to be playing smarter, more confidently. I think they have given him more responsibility. He's very, very accurate and…
- Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.
- I am delighted to be part of this Women's Aid campaign - the statistics are frightening. I've spent time with the victims of these cowardly…
- We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight.
- You only find complete unanimity in a cemetary.
- Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all.
- Statistics may be defined as the discipline concerned with the treatment of numerical data derived from groups of individuals.
- What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!
- The practising Bayesian is well advised to become friends with as many numerical analysts as possible.
- Most problems have either many answers or no answer. Only a few problems have one answer.
- Bayesian statistics is difficult in the sense that thinking is difficult.
- The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing.
- When evaluating a model, at least two broad standards are relevant. One is whether the model is consistent with the data. The other is whether…
- The various estimates of the height of the true summit vary considerably, but by taking an average of these figures it is possible to say…
- It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always found…
- A thing is obvious mathematically after you see it.
More Statistics Quotes
- Democracy is an abuse of statistics. — Jorge Luis Borges
- If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of… — Mark Twain
- The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to… — Norman Ralph Augustine
- If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
- We made too many wrong mistakes. — Yogi Berra
- We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have… — Niels Bohr
- For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It… — Kim Campbell
- The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out… — Mark Twain