#statistic

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. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

#after #asking #call #died #done

Only 38 per cent of players in the Premier League are English; that is a damning statistic. Soon, the England manager will have to go scouting for players in the Championship - and when I say 'soon' I mean the next four or five years, perhaps even for the next World Cup. ↗

— Glenn Hoddle

#championship #cup #damning #england #english

It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. ↗

— Fletcher Knebel

#causes #doubt #leading #now #proved

If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment. ↗

— Ernest Rutherford

#science #statistics #experience

I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well. ↗

— Eric Davis

#cancer #different #happen #i #just

We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too. ↗

— Evan Davis

#know #love #obviously #statistics #their

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used. ↗

— Stanley Smith Stevens

#measure #placed #statistics #type #used

And given that there's been probably a ten-fold amount of information about terrorism through the media than there has about climate change; I think that's quite an interesting statistic. ↗

— Peter Garrett

#amount #been #change #climate #climate change

This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in 'American Idol' than in any US election. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#american idol #any #election #frightening #idol

After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes. ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#attention #brought #class #i #mechanics