“Regression analysis is the hydrogen bomb of the statistics arsenal.”
― Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
― Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
“Descriptive statistics can be like online dating profiles: technically accurate and yet pretty darn misleading.”
― Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
― Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
“Ich glaube, ich habe Muskelkater im Kopf.”
― Lieber Matz, Dein Papa hat 'ne Meise
― Lieber Matz, Dein Papa hat 'ne Meise
“Statistics cannot be any smarter than the people who use them. And in some cases, they can make smart people do dumb things.”
― Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
― Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
“The beauty of the normal distribution - its Michael Jordan power, finesse, and elegance - comes from the fact that we know by definition exactly what proportion of the observations in a normal distribution lie within one standard deviation of the mean (68.2 percent), within two standard deviations of the mean (95.4 percent), within three standard deviations of the mean (99.7 percent), and so on.”
― Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
― Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
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