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"A veritable mine of ideas to enliven your classes or impress your colleagues. Recommend!" -- Teaching Statistics
"This is a remarkable collection made even more so by the careful referencing and indexing...a delightful book to pick up now and again and delve into. It is referenced and cross-referenced to a faretheewell." -- Journal of Quality Technology
"this collection will be valuable and useful for all levels of readers, including statisticians." -- Choice
...a delightful book, full of interest...It will be useful for all levels of readers and is highly recommended -- Austalian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, September 1999
A veritable mine of ideas to enliven your classes or impress your colleagues. Recommended!
-Teaching Statistics
From Sophocles to Esar's Comic Dictionary, this book contains the most complete collection of statistical quotations ever assembled … The attributions are detailed where possible including a full biographical information and page numbers.
-Australia and New Zealand Journal of Statistics
This is a remarkable collection made even more so by the careful referencing and indexing … a delightful book to pick up now and again and delve into. It is referenced and cross-referenced to a faretheewell.
-Journal of Quality Technology
… the authors have produced a delightful book, full of interest. It will be useful for all levels of readers and is highly recommended. This is a volume that should be on the shelves of every statistics department, primarily for use and secondly for pleasure.
-The Statistician
…this collection will be valuable and useful for all levels of readers, including statisticians.
-Choice
"This is a remarkable collection made even more so by the careful referencing and indexing...a delightful book to pick up now and again and delve into. It is referenced and cross-referenced to a faretheewell." -- Journal of Quality Technology
"this collection will be valuable and useful for all levels of readers, including statisticians." -- Choice
...a delightful book, full of interest...It will be useful for all levels of readers and is highly recommended -- Austalian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, September 1999
A veritable mine of ideas to enliven your classes or impress your colleagues. Recommended!
-Teaching Statistics
From Sophocles to Esar's Comic Dictionary, this book contains the most complete collection of statistical quotations ever assembled … The attributions are detailed where possible including a full biographical information and page numbers.
-Australia and New Zealand Journal of Statistics
This is a remarkable collection made even more so by the careful referencing and indexing … a delightful book to pick up now and again and delve into. It is referenced and cross-referenced to a faretheewell.
-Journal of Quality Technology
… the authors have produced a delightful book, full of interest. It will be useful for all levels of readers and is highly recommended. This is a volume that should be on the shelves of every statistics department, primarily for use and secondly for pleasure.
-The Statistician
…this collection will be valuable and useful for all levels of readers, including statisticians.
-Choice
Product Description
Statistically Speaking presents a massive collection of quotations pertaining to probability and statistics. Some quotations are profound, others are wise, some are witty, but none are frivolous. Here you will find quotations from the most famous to the unknown. The book is designed to be entertaining and informative so that you can get a feel for the depth and breadth of statistics.
The extensive author and subject indexes provide you with the perfect tools for locating quotations for practical use or pleasure, and you will soon enjoy discovering what others have said on topics ranging from actuaries to variability. Additionally, some quotations are illustrated by amusing cartoons.
This book will be a handy reference for the scientific reader and the wider public interested in who has said what on statistics. Professionals, teachers, and students interested in statistics and probability will also benefit from the gems found in this book.
The extensive author and subject indexes provide you with the perfect tools for locating quotations for practical use or pleasure, and you will soon enjoy discovering what others have said on topics ranging from actuaries to variability. Additionally, some quotations are illustrated by amusing cartoons.
This book will be a handy reference for the scientific reader and the wider public interested in who has said what on statistics. Professionals, teachers, and students interested in statistics and probability will also benefit from the gems found in this book.
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New York, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, The American Statistician, John Wiley, Dover Publications, Ralph Waldo, Sir Ronald, The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, Harvard University Press, Random House, Alfred North, The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, James Anthony Short Studies, Garden City, Houghton Mifflin, Ely Essays, Study of Experimental Medicine, Claude An Introduction, Francis Ysidro, Henry Adams, New Jersey, The Viking Press New!
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New York, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, The American Statistician, John Wiley, Dover Publications, Ralph Waldo, Sir Ronald, The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, Harvard University Press, Random House, Alfred North, The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, James Anthony Short Studies, Garden City, Houghton Mifflin, Ely Essays, Study of Experimental Medicine, Claude An Introduction, Francis Ysidro, Henry Adams, New Jersey, The Viking Press New!
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