Statistically Speaking

A Dictionary of Quotations

C.C. Gaither, Alma E Cavazos-Gaither

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9780429525667
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Matematica
• Subtopic: Matematica applicata

Statistically 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.

SUBJECT BY AUTHOR INDEX

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1. actuaries
   1. Unknown
      1. Actuaries are funny people, 1
2. actuary
   1. Karpansky, L.
      1. Analytical and graphical treatment of statistics is employed by…the actuary…with the most surprising results…, 1
   2. Unknown
      1. …the actuary is in the back seat screaming directions…, 1
      2. Someone once asked an actuary how much 2 plus 2 was, 1
3. American Statistical Association
   1. Proschan, Frank
      1. Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the American Statistical Association?, 217
4. analysis
   1. Allen, R.G.D.
      1. Not even the most subtle and skilled analysis can overcome completely the unreliability of basic data, 2
   2. Bell, Eric T.
      1. The technical analysis of any large collection of data is a task for a highly trained and expensive man…, 2
   3. Cardozo, Benjamin N.
      1. The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years and more, 2
   4. Holmes, O.W., Jr.
      1. …by their very felicity, delay further analysis for fifty years, 3
   5. Laplace, Pierre-Simon
      1. …if moreover it were vast enough to submit these data to analysis…, 4
   6. Unknown
      1. It always helps to know the answer when you are working toward the solution of a problem, 5
5. analysis of the instances
   1. Keynes, John Maynard
      1. But to argue, without analysis of the instances…, 3
6. analysis of the obvious
   1. Whitehead, Alfred North
      1. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious, 5
7. analysis, age of
   1. Sherman, Susan
      1. The age of analysis, 4
8. analysis, data
   1. Tukey, John W.
      1. If data analysis is to be well done…, 5
9. analysis, excellence of
   1. Mill, John Stuart
      1. The very excellence of analysis…, 4
10. analysis, habit of
    1. Mill, John Stuart
       1. The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings, 4
11. analysis, method of
    1. Newton, Sir Isaac
       1. As in mathematics, so in natural philosophy, the investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis, ought to precede the method of composition, 4
12. analysis, Murphy’s Laws of
    1. Deakly, C.G.
       1. …the figures that are obviously correct contain errors, 3
13. analysis, probability
    1. Thomsett, Michael C.
       1. “Oh, you mean he used probability analysis…, 5
14. analyst
    1. Keeney, Ralph and Raiffa, Howard
       1. …be wary of analysts that try to quantify the unquantifiable, 3
15. analytic
    1. Butler, Samuel
       1. He was in Logic, a great critic, Profoundly skill’d in Analytic;, 2
16. analytical reaso...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Actuary
• Analysis
• Average
• Bayesian
• Cause and Effect
• Certainty
• Chance
• Common Sense
• Correlation
• Data
• Definitions
• Degrees of Freedom
• Design of Experiments
• Dice
• Distributions
• Error
• Experiment
• Facts
• Forecast
• Gambling
• Graphics
• Hypotheses
• Impossible
• Infinite
• Knowledge
• Laws
• Likelihood
• Measurement
• Models
• Observations
• Order
• Outliers
• Percentages
• Prayer
• Prediction
• Probability
• Probable
• Problems
• Quality Control
• Queue
• Randomness
• Reason
• Recursion
• Regression
• Research
• Residuals
• Sample
• Science
• Statistical
• Statistician
• Statistics
• Surveys and Questionnaires
• Symmetry
• Tables
• Teaching
• Testing
• Theory
• Truth
• Variability
• Bibliography
• Permissions
• Subject by Author Index
• Author by Subject Index