Statisticians Quotes

While the monthly data is often erratic and the government statisticians warn that it takes four months to establish a change in trend, it is pretty clear from the top chart that the explosion in housing from 1997 through early 2000 is ending. - David Orr

We're at the stage of the business cycle where statisticians can't keep up with rapidly changing developments, especially new businesses. That's where the greatest potential for an upward revision is. - David Resler

We checked it out with the statisticians and, according to his records, everything seemed to be all right. - Chuck Heberling

We are encouraged not only by these preliminary results, but also by the level of collaboration in the Parkinson's community. These findings represent the efforts of pharmacologists, clinicians, statisticians, and clinical trial experts- including NINDS staff- who have come together with academia, industry, patients, and foundation groups to advance the development of innovative therapies for Parkinson's. The exceptional speed of patient recruitment allowed us to finish this study in record time. - Story Landis

Unfortunately for the large number of Americans and their families who are trying to live with TRD and their psychiatrists who are trying to help them, the Senate Finance Committee [Feb. 16] issued a report without having interviewed world-renowned experts on TRD, widely published biostatisticians, patients and families living with TRD, patient advocacy organizations like NAMI, VNS Therapy TRD study investigators, and all the FDA statisticians and clinicians involved in the review of the submissions, that ultimately led to the approval of the only FDA-approved treatment option for TRD. - Robert Cummins

Thou shalt not sit With statisticians nor commit A social science. - W. H. Auden

The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution. - John T. Flynn

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians. - Sylvia Porter

Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation. - Lillian Hellman

Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census. - Rob Lowe