Quotes About Statistical Analysis

#1. The early years of statistical development were dominated by men. Many women were working in the field, but they were almost all employed in doing the detailed calculations needed for statistical analysis, and were indeed called "computers".

David Salsburg

#2. Lorenz was the charismatic, flamboyant thinker - he didn't conduct a single statistical analysis in his life - while Tinbergen did the nitty-gritty of actual data collection.

Frans De Waal

#3. When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.

Nate Silver

#4. An invaluable little book ... What Makes a Terrorist uses standard tools of economics and statistical analysis to get at the truth about terrorism ... Krueger finds one familiar fact in all his numbers. Countries with fewer civil liberties tend to produce more terrorists.

Daniel Finkelstein

#5. The 80/20 analysis is a statistical analysis that you can conduct to improve your sales. Research has shown that, for any given event, 80% of the outcome will be due to 20% of the cause.

Grant Kennedy

#6. statistical analysis revealed that the training was responsible for the positive effects.

Shawn Achor

#7. Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.

Temple Grandin

#8. Reducing intelligence to the statistical analysis of large data sets "can lead us," says Levesque, "to systems with very impressive performance that are nonetheless idiot-savants.

Nicholas Carr

#9. From empathy and sexuality to science inclination and extroversion, statistical analysis of 122 different characteristics involving 13,301 individuals shows that men and women, by and large, do not fall into different groups.

Christian Rudder

#10. The trial designed to bring the most rigorous statistical analysis to the cause of lung cancer barely required elementary mathematics to prove its point.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#11. That's the difference between crime and business. For business you gotta have capital. Sometimes I think it's the only difference.

Raymond Chandler

#12. There are 365 "fear nots" in the Bible. One for every day of the year. Today I will fear not.

Robin Jones Gunn

#13. Science of yoga and ayurveda is subtler than the science of medicine, because science of medicine is often victim of statistical manipulation.

Amit Ray

#14. Just like in the workplace, women who are good workers are the best workers.

Bill Maher

#15. The purpose of a purpose is to fulfill a purpose

Thabiso Monkoe

#16. No data are excluded on subjective or arbitrary grounds. No one piece of data is more highly valued than another. The consequences of this policy have to be accepted, even if they prove awkward.

Jennifer K. McArthur

#17. Great indeed is our need to love

Julia Hartwig

#18. What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses.

Carl Sagan

#19. Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.

Charles V

#20. Not only did he unleash his emotions through rivers of tears, but for several days he denied his body food so he could pray and seek the God of heaven.

Craig Groeschel

#21. Nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so.

Moshe Feldenkrais

#22. None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or that our analysis should take precedence over the informed opinions of experts. I'm not saying that at all.

Bill James

#23. We believe that government in Britain is there to protect people from terrorism and from the worst criminality, but never at the expense of our civil liberties and the basic tenets of our legal system.

Charles Kennedy

#24. There are possibilities that exist beyond our present "knowing," and to see those possibilities, we must abandon that which makes us feel safe.

Bryant McGill

#25. We look our best in subdued colors, sophisticated cuts, and a general air of sleek understatement.

Jil Sander

#26. I have my own studio down in Miami.

Aaron Carter

#27. Being blond is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blond has some incredible sort of sexual connotation.

Madonna Ciccone

#28. What she means? Sure, whatever. It's not like I thought that this is the carving, the flying, the healing of my wounds. Sometimes you don't know when you're

Ann Voskamp