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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... understand why statisticians commonly limit their enquiries to Averages, and do not revel in more comprehensive views. Their souls seem as dull to the charm of variety as that of the native of one of our flat English counties, whose ...
... understand why statisticians commonly limit their enquiries to Averages, and do not revel in more comprehensive views. Their souls seem as dull to the charm of variety as that of the native of one of our flat English counties, whose ...
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... understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment. da Vinci, Leonardo The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Philosophy (p. 64) I understand that to be CAUSE OF ITSELF (causa sui) whose essence involves existence and whose ...
... understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment. da Vinci, Leonardo The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Philosophy (p. 64) I understand that to be CAUSE OF ITSELF (causa sui) whose essence involves existence and whose ...
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... Understanding Section VIII (p. 99) All effects follow not with like certainty from their supposed causes. Hume, David An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Section X (p. 115) Here is a billiard ball lying on the table, and another ...
... Understanding Section VIII (p. 99) All effects follow not with like certainty from their supposed causes. Hume, David An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Section X (p. 115) Here is a billiard ball lying on the table, and another ...
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... understand. Hoffer, Eric The True Believer Part 3, Chapter XII, Section 57 (p. 79) Heads I win, Tails you lose. Holmes, O.W. The Professor at the Breakfast Table (p. 223) But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the ...
... understand. Hoffer, Eric The True Believer Part 3, Chapter XII, Section 57 (p. 79) Heads I win, Tails you lose. Holmes, O.W. The Professor at the Breakfast Table (p. 223) But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the ...
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... Understanding Book IV, III, 14 As mathematical and absolute certainty is seldom to be attained in human affairs, reasoning and public utility require that judges and all mankind in forming their opinion of the truth of facts should be ...
... Understanding Book IV, III, 14 As mathematical and absolute certainty is seldom to be attained in human affairs, reasoning and public utility require that judges and all mankind in forming their opinion of the truth of facts should be ...
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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