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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... a frequency near to 1/10 in a further set of observations, is . . . hardly an argument at all. Keynes, John Maynard Treatise on Probability Chapter XXXIII (p. 407) An intelligence that, at a given instant, could comprehend all ANALYSIS 3.
... a frequency near to 1/10 in a further set of observations, is . . . hardly an argument at all. Keynes, John Maynard Treatise on Probability Chapter XXXIII (p. 407) An intelligence that, at a given instant, could comprehend all ANALYSIS 3.
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... probability, or at any rate a mathematically calculable chance, which ensures that he will not upset himself by losing too much nor upset his opponent by winning too often. Stoppard, Tom Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Act One (p ...
... probability, or at any rate a mathematically calculable chance, which ensures that he will not upset himself by losing too much nor upset his opponent by winning too often. Stoppard, Tom Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Act One (p ...
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... probability in favor of a generalization is enormous, but the infinite probability of certainty is never reached. Dampier-Whetham, William Science and the Human Mind Chapter X It was not a PERHAPS; it was a certainty. Froude, James ...
... probability in favor of a generalization is enormous, but the infinite probability of certainty is never reached. Dampier-Whetham, William Science and the Human Mind Chapter X It was not a PERHAPS; it was a certainty. Froude, James ...
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... probability amounts not to certainty, without which there can be no true knowledge. Locke, John An Essay Concerning ... probabilities on the one side or the other. Mansfield, Lord Quoted in Francis Wellman's The Art of Cross-Examination ...
... probability amounts not to certainty, without which there can be no true knowledge. Locke, John An Essay Concerning ... probabilities on the one side or the other. Mansfield, Lord Quoted in Francis Wellman's The Art of Cross-Examination ...
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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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