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Tag Name "Statistician" (47)

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The median isn't the message.
Stephen Jay Gould
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Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
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This spiritualist, this statistician, what are you anyway?
Thomas Pynchon
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To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.
Ronald Fisher
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Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.
Robert Rodriguez
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All models are wrong, but some are useful.
George E. P. Box
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Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.
Steven Pinker
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The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends.
Ronald Fisher
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Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.
George Brett
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We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is build a story to explain the facts.
Michael Lewis
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Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for the bureaucrat and the statistician, but it would be very dull, and would lead to a very unprogressive society.
Bertrand Russell
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While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound social change long before the economic statisticians notice them. Changes start long before they become statistics.
Wayne Swan
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Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
Hilaire Belloc
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According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.
Ambrose Bierce
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[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.
Francis Galton
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The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
W. Edwards Deming
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He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.
Bradley Efron
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Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
Lillian Hellman
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Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.
Nate Silver
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Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.
Gregg Easterbrook
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An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.
John Tukey
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