Quotes About Statistician

The basic sample is the kind called "random." It is selected by pure chance from the "universe," a word by which the statistician means the whole of which the sample is a part.

But he and his compatriots would soon assess the cost of Taffy 3's audacious resistance, the effectiveness of which no tactician could ever have foreseen and no statistician could have measured.

Which was briefly reassuring, until some biomedical statistician from the University of fucking Buzzkill went on record about the myth of the perfect failsafe,

Celine snorted. "Never have I ever had a thing for blondes," she said. And then, her eyes on Sloane, she shot our statistician a dazzling smile and lowered her own finger —meaning that she did have a thing for blondes.

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.

while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.

Nassim Taleb, a statistician, risk analyst, and author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, calls it the "Lucretius Problem." Named

An utterly steady, reliable woman, responsible to the point of grimness. Daisy was a statistician for the Gallup Poll.

In the British statistician R. A. Fisher's famous formulation, "the 'one chance in a million' will undoubtedly occur, with no less and no more than its appropriate frequency, however surprised we may be that it should occur to us.

This spiritualist, this statistician, what are you anyway?

The term bit (the contraction, by 40 bits, of "binary digit") was coined by statistician John W. Tukey shortly after he joined von Neumann's project in November of 1945.

The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.

To quote the industrial statistician George Box: "Every model is wrong, but some are useful.

A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it.

These suggestions are only preliminary. A statistician on the job will of course modify and revise them to suit his own inclinations and local conditions.