All models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in mind.
My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.
The statistics show that when you've done something for so long, it'll either be, yeah, you're slowing down, or someone's doing it better. But physically, I feel great. More than that, it's mental and spiritual.
What makes a terrorist? Are the drivers primarily political or economic? Princeton economist Alan Krueger has made a great study of this question...What Makes a Terrorist lacks a question mark. That's because Krueger, marshaling persuasive statistics and analysis, comes down firmly on the side of politics, noting most terrorists are middle-class and well-educated.
No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.
With those kinds of statistics, there are real concerns that cannot be explained away other than race. How long do we turn a blind eye to it?.
If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate.
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances.
Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.
The Wall will stand for a hundred years.
The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!
Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics. Now I agree that the physicist, the chemist, the engineer, and the statistician can never know too much mathematics, but their objectives should be better physics, better chemistry, better engineering, and in the case of statistics, better scientific investigation. Whether in any given study this implies more or less mathematics is incidental.
I am not very good at statistics. I am also a poor thinker.
Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;" What kind of business should I start?" Incidentially, it has a twin that also sets me off: "What should I specialize in during the second year of my MBA studies?" Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask - upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.
Statistics compiled by the German Federal Motor Transport Authority highlight how successfully we have reduced fuel consumption. A few years ago, the CO2 emissions for the BMW brand were at well over 200 grams per kilometer. In 2009, that number was at 159 grams. This puts us below our direct competitors.
The analysis of statistics is a big part of the modern game, and it's important as a modern manager to embrace areas that can help your team and players improve.
We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.
This book fills a much-needed gap.
Even more important than statistics is then having the staff that can take the data and ensure it's presented in a way that improves individuals and teams.
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.
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.
I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.
In real life there is no such person as the average man.
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