8 private quotes tagged statistics

“All models are wrong, but some are useful.” — George E. P. Box

Source:Box & Draper (1987), Empirical model-building and respons...

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“An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.” — John Tukey

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“In God we trust. All others must bring data.” — W. Edwards Deming

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“All generalizations are false, including this one.” — Mark Twain

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“Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.” — George E. P. Box

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“No matter what the statistics say, there's always a way.” — Bernard Siegel

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“To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.” — Ronald Fisher

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“Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.” — Aaron Levenstein

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