Statistically Speaking: A Dictionary of QuotationsCRC Press, 26 nov 2018 - 420 pagina's 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. |
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... unknown wits. You may not find all the quoted 'jewels' that exist, but we are certain that you will find a great number of them here. We believe that Benjamin Franklin was correct when he said that "Nothing gives an author so much ...
... unknown wits. You may not find all the quoted 'jewels' that exist, but we are certain that you will find a great number of them here. We believe that Benjamin Franklin was correct when he said that "Nothing gives an author so much ...
Pagina 1
... Unknown Actuaries are funny people. Even when they are wrong, they are right. I told an actuary to go to the back of the queue. He immediately came back and said that he couldn't—there was already someone there. Unknown An insurance ...
... Unknown Actuaries are funny people. Even when they are wrong, they are right. I told an actuary to go to the back of the queue. He immediately came back and said that he couldn't—there was already someone there. Unknown An insurance ...
Pagina 5
... solution of a problem. Unknown It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. Whitehead, Alfred North Science and the Modern World (p. 4) AVERAGE If at first you don't succeed, you are running ANALYSIS 5.
... solution of a problem. Unknown It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. Whitehead, Alfred North Science and the Modern World (p. 4) AVERAGE If at first you don't succeed, you are running ANALYSIS 5.
Pagina 8
... Unknown Chapter 2, 4 (p. 49) The concept of average was developed in the Rhodian laws as to the distribution of losses in maritime risks. Cohen, Morris R. Journal of the American Statistical Association The Statistical View of Nature ...
... Unknown Chapter 2, 4 (p. 49) The concept of average was developed in the Rhodian laws as to the distribution of losses in maritime risks. Cohen, Morris R. Journal of the American Statistical Association The Statistical View of Nature ...
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... Unknown If we start with the assumption, grounded on experience, that there is uniformity in this average, and so long as this is secured to us, we can afford to be perfectly indifferent to the fate, as regards causation, of the ...
... Unknown If we start with the assumption, grounded on experience, that there is uniformity in this average, and so long as this is secured to us, we can afford to be perfectly indifferent to the fate, as regards causation, of the ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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