Approach Quote by Ronald Fisher

“The subtlety of your analysis of variance will not move readers to tears, although the tediousness of it might.”

— Paul J. Silvia

I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow…

— Heraclitus

“Variability has potential to create confusion.”

— Steven Redhead

Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.

— Anonymous

In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should…

— Antoine Lavoisier

There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and vega are…

— John Hull

We must understand variation.

— W. Edwards Deming

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

— Paul Cezanne

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions

— Edward Coke

When VAR was first introduced I think it was used regularly to try to get the right decision. But I think the use of…

— Eddie Howe

It's human nature to make the complex manageable and determine things that fit your conclusions. That's bias.

— Richard Burr