Branches Quote by Maurice Kendall

Statistics may be defined as the discipline concerned with the treatment of numerical data derived from groups of individuals.

— Peter Armitage

Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.

— W. Allen Wallis

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

— Evan Esar

Statistics is the grammar of science.

— Karl Pearson

Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on…

— Thomas Carlyle

Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.

— Ian Hacking

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

— Edmond de Goncourt

[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.

— Evan Esar

Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics.…

— George E. P. Box

A problem of statistical inference or, more simply, a statistics problem is a problem in which data that have been generated in accordance with…

— Morris H. DeGroot

Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every…

— Florence Nightingale

Some people hate the very name of statistics, but I find them full of beauty and interest. Whenever they are not brutalized, but delicately…

— Francis Galton