Some Quotable Quotes for Statistics and ...
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The remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics
Mark Twain
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The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley
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Statistics [is] The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Evan Esar
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We left in our mathematical model a gap for the exercise of a more intuitive process of personal judgment.
Egon Pearson
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At the outset the most important questions for the statistician to ask is: What is the objective of this investigation?
"The Practice of Statistics: The Real World is an Idea Whose Time Has Come"
William Hunter
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Statistics is the science of data.
Moore
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Statistics is much more about the scientific method than anything else, determining research questions; designing studies; organizing, summarizing, and analyzing the data; interpreting results; and drawing conclusions.
Rumsey
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Statistics is a collection of procedures and principles for gathering data and analyzing information in order to help people make decisions when faced with uncertainty.
Utts and Heckard
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Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target.
Homer Adkins
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Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target.
Homer Adkins
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As we know there are known knowns. These are things that we know that we know. There are also known unkowns. That is to say, there are some things that we know that we don’t know. But there are also unknown unkowns, the ones we don’t know we don’t know.
Donald Rumsfeld
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Get your facts straight first and then you can distort’em as much as you please.
Mark Twain
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79.48% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
John Allen Paulos
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Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
John Wilder Tukey Ann.
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It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon.
R Hooke
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Statistical Thinking will be one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write.
H.G. Wells
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It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
Fletcher Knebel
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Data is a lot like humans. It is born. Matures. Gets married to other data, divorced. Gets old. One thing it doesn’t do is die. It has to be killed.
Arthur Miller
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Statistics means never having to say you’re certain.
Anon.
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Statistics may be defined as the discipline concerned with the treatment of numerical data derived fromgroups of individuals.
Peter Armitage
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We provisionally define statistics as the study of how information should be employed to reflect on, and give guidance for action in, a practical situation involving uncertainty.
V. Barnett
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The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing.
Hubert M. Blalock, Jr.
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A knowledge of statistics is like a knowledge of foreign languages or of algebra; it may prove of use at any time under any circumstances.
L. Bowley
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I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
George Canning
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Statistical methods constitute the science of collecting, analysing and interpreting data in the best possible way.
C. Chatfield
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Years ago a statistician might have claimed that statistics deals with the processing of data. . . to-days statistician will be more likely to say that statistics is concerned with decision making in the face of uncertainty.
H. Chernoff and L. E. Moses
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Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
Henry Clay
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The objective of statistical analysis is to discover what conclusions can be drawn from data and to present these conclusions in as simple and lucid a form as is consistent with accuracy.
D. R. Cox and E. J. Snell
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