Quotes About Statistics

Statistics mean nothing to the individual.

In 1955, there were 150,000 New Yorkers on welfare; in 1995, there were 1.3 million.

ideologues of every stripe, as well as folks with interests economic, political, or personal, can interpret data and statistics to suit their own purposes...

If you've recently learned that you have a brain tumor, keep this in mind: You are a statistic of one.

Machine learning tends to be more focused on developing efficient algorithms that scale to large data in order to optimize the predictive model. Statistics generally pays more attention to the probabilistic theory and underlying structure of the model.

Nowhere is the nexus between statistics and data science stronger than in the realm of prediction — specifically the prediction of an outcome (target) variable based on the values of other "predictor" variables.

a remarkable 22% of all married couples have reported in recent years that they met and started dating at their offices.

Urban violence is in decline for the first time in decades, Cal.

Most Popular Dog Breeds in the U.S. in 2013   1. Labrador Retriever

Although around 43 percent of Americans claim to go to church, only about 17 to 20.4 percent actually went to church last weekend.

Two hundred and fifty thousand people a year in England alone went missing. Of those, one-third were never seen again.

By 1957 97% of all marriageable men and women were married, and if they cared to have a social life, they stayed that way.