Statistically Speaking: A Dictionary of QuotationsStatistically Speaking is a book of quotations. It brings together the best expressed thoughts that are especially illuminating and pertinent to the disciplines of probability and statistics. The book is an aid for the individual who loves to quote – and to quote correctly. |
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... mark out for us that particular object from all others. Eliot, George The George Eliot Letters Volume II (p. 251) It is not the first use but the tiresome repetition of inadequate catchwords which I am observing—phrases which originally ...
... mark out for us that particular object from all others. Eliot, George The George Eliot Letters Volume II (p. 251) It is not the first use but the tiresome repetition of inadequate catchwords which I am observing—phrases which originally ...
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... Mark Mark Twain Laughing 1904, #370 (p. 98) I was very young in those days, exceedingly young, marvelously young, younger than I am now, younger than I shall ever be again, by hundreds of years. I worked every night from eleven or ...
... Mark Mark Twain Laughing 1904, #370 (p. 98) I was very young in those days, exceedingly young, marvelously young, younger than I am now, younger than I shall ever be again, by hundreds of years. I worked every night from eleven or ...
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... Mark The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside and John Dyer Hymn to Science in Works of the English Poets (p. 357) The universal cause is one thing, a particular cause another. An effect can be haphazard with respect to the plan of the ...
... Mark The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside and John Dyer Hymn to Science in Works of the English Poets (p. 357) The universal cause is one thing, a particular cause another. An effect can be haphazard with respect to the plan of the ...
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Contents
PERCENTAGES | 151 |
PRAYER | 154 |
PREDICTION | 156 |
PROBABILITY | 158 |
PROBABLE | 183 |
PROBLEMS | 187 |
QUALITY CONTROL | 188 |
QUEUE | 190 |
CORRELATION | 52 |
DATA | 55 |
DEFINITIONS | 59 |
DEGREES OF FREEDOM | 64 |
DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS | 65 |
DICE | 67 |
DISTRIBUTIONS | 71 |
ERROR | 76 |
EXPERIMENT | 83 |
FACTS | 89 |
FORECAST | 106 |
GAMBLING | 111 |
GRAPHICS | 113 |
HYPOTHESES | 117 |
IMPOSSIBLE | 122 |
INFINITE | 125 |
KNOWLEDGE | 126 |
LAWS | 127 |
LIKELIHOOD | 134 |
MEASUREMENT | 136 |
MODELS | 140 |
OBSERVATIONS | 142 |
ORDER | 148 |
OUTLIERS | 150 |
RANDOMNESS | 191 |
REASON | 193 |
RECURSION | 196 |
REGRESSION | 197 |
RESEARCH | 199 |
RESIDUALS | 200 |
SAMPLE | 201 |
SCIENCE | 204 |
STATISTICAL | 206 |
STATISTICIAN | 221 |
STATISTICS | 234 |
SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES | 266 |
SYMMETRY | 268 |
TABLES | 269 |
TEACHING | 271 |
TESTING | 273 |
THEORY | 275 |
TRUTH | 284 |
VARIABILITY | 285 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 289 |
PERMISSIONS | 320 |
SUBJECT BY AUTHOR INDEX | 331 |
AUTHOR BY SUBJECT INDEX | 398 |
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Statistically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations C.C. Gaither,Alma E Cavazos-Gaither No preview available - 1996 |
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