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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... 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.
... 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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... John Stuart Autobiography V (p. 116) The very excellence of analysis ... tends to weaken and undermine whatever is the result of prejudice; that it enables us mentally to separate ideas which have only casually clung together ... Mill, John ...
... John Stuart Autobiography V (p. 116) The very excellence of analysis ... tends to weaken and undermine whatever is the result of prejudice; that it enables us mentally to separate ideas which have only casually clung together ... Mill, John ...
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... John W. Annals of Mathematical Statistics The Future of Data Analysis Volume 33, Number 1, March 1962 (p. 10) It always helps to know the answer when you are working toward the solution of a problem. Unknown It requires a very unusual ...
... John W. Annals of Mathematical Statistics The Future of Data Analysis Volume 33, Number 1, March 1962 (p. 10) It always helps to know the answer when you are working toward the solution of a problem. Unknown It requires a very unusual ...
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... John The Face of Battle (p. 307) One need not accept Shaw's own estimate of his intellectual equipment to see that the doctor's remark cut through a confusion in which psychologists and sociologists flounder. Frequently they make no ...
... John The Face of Battle (p. 307) One need not accept Shaw's own estimate of his intellectual equipment to see that the doctor's remark cut through a confusion in which psychologists and sociologists flounder. Frequently they make no ...
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... John An Essay Concerning Human 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 ...
... John An Essay Concerning Human 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 ...
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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