A highly trained mathematical statistician without knowledge of the subject can be quite as dangerous as a subject-matter specialist trying to use statistical methods of which he has little knowledge.
Aryness Joy Wickens (1901 - 1991)
A highly trained mathematical statistician without knowledge of the subject can be quite as dangerous as a subject-matter specialist trying to use statistical methods of which he has little knowledge.
Aryness Joy Wickens (1901 - 1991)
In our society, if you love dogs, cats, or goldfish you're considered normal and even nice. Say a kind word for statistics and you're regarded as a little mad.
Robert J. Samuelson (1945 - )
... statistics is not a branch of mathematics. Indeed so; the whole of applied mathematics is merely a branch of statistics in which random error is reduced to zero.
Barbara A. Bailar (1935 - )
Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.
Harry Reasoner (1923 - 1991)
I can prove anything by statistics except the truth
George Canning (1770 - 1827)
Those who fear muddy feet will never discover new paths.
Paul Eldridge (1888 - 1982)
The facts that we dislike we call theories; the theories that we cherish we call facts.
Felix S. Cohen (1907 - 1953)
Statistics is the art of stating in precise terms that which one does not know.
William H. Kruskal (1919 - 2005)
Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.
Bradley Efron (1938 - )
Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one.
Francois-Marie Arouet (a.k.a. Voltaire: 1694 - 1778)