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Tag Name "Statistician" (47)

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If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.
Anna Quindlen
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The best time to plan an experiment is after you've done it.
Ronald Fisher
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If a chess statistician were to try and satisfy his curiousity over which stage of the game proved decisive in the majority of cases, he would certainly come to the conclusion that it is the middlegame that provides the most decisive stage.
Alexander Kotov
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If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion
George Bernard Shaw
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The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process.
George E. P. Box
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Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.
Winston Churchill
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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.
Robert Hooke
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Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable.
Bobby Bragan
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Finding oil is a multidisciplinary science. You need a lot of people - statisticians, engineers, and geologists, of course. And what I have learned in the past 30 years is that I read people better than I read books.
Eike Batista
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61% of graduating teens have had sex, 37% will eventually have sex, and 2% become statisticians.
Jon Stewart
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Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.
John Tukey
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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.
Herman Chernoff
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Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.
Rob Lowe
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli
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If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
Ernest Rutherford
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Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science.
W. H. Auden
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...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.
John Tukey
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A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
Thomas Carlyle
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One thing about cold weather: it brings out the statistician in everyone.
Paul Theroux
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Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!
H. G. Wells
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Good stories are not written by people who live in a city of dirty strip malls, forced to listen to the machinated opinions of lawyers, bean counters and statisticians… Good stories strong enough to love are created by those brave enough to live.
Spencer Antle
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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
George Bernard Shaw
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Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur fantasists ended up creating some of the algorithms that Oakland GM Billy Bean's statisticians used to win games with less salary money available for star players.
Douglas Rushkoff
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