标题: 统计名言语录 [打印本页] 作者: shiyiming 时间: 2004-8-20 11:19 标题: 统计名言语录 Adkin , Homer
Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air, where it lands, painting a target.
Homer Adkins
Nature 312:212 (1984)
Box , George Edward Pelham
In the first place, the best way to convey to the experimenter what the data tell him about is to s how him a picture of the posterior distribution.
G. E. P. Box & G. C. Tiao
Bayesian Inference in Statistical Analysis (1973)
As the Bayesian approach sets us free from the yoke of sufficiency, so numerical integration and the avf computers set us frailability oee from the need to worry about the"integrability in closed form" of the function".
G. E. P. Box & G. C. Tiao
Bayesian Inference in Statistical Analysis (1973)
All models are wrong, but some models are useful.
G. E. P. Box
Robustness in the Strategy of Scientific Model Building (1979)
Conroy , Ronan
I'm not an outlier; I just haven't found my distribution yet!
Ronan Conroy in Dublin, Ireland
Cox , D. R.
The objective of statistical analysis is to discover what conclusions can be drawn from data and to present these conclusions in as simple and lucid a form as is consistent with accuracy.
D. R. Cox and E. J. Snell
Applied Statistics (1981), section 4.1
Deming , William Edwards
The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
William Edwards Deming
JASA
Fisher , Ronald Aylmer
To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
address to Indian Statistical Congress (1938)
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
Galton , Francis
Statistics are the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.
Francis Galton
quoted in: Karl Pearson, ‘The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton’ (1914)
Hooke , R.
It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon.
R. Hooke
How to tell the Liars from the Statisticians (1983)
Karlin , Samuel
The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the question.
Samuel Karlin
11th R. A. Fisher Memorial Lecture, Royal Society, 20作者: shiyiming 时间: 2004-8-22 15:09 标题: interesting! very interesting. how to get these quotes? thanks for your hard work.