Top 169 Statistical Quotes & Sayings

An atom is a hierarchy of different states of information that define the statistical likelihood of finding a particle here or there at the time of observation.

Bose-Einstein condensation is one of the most intriguing phenomena predicted by quantum statistical mechanics.

I don't think there is any global warming. I don't see the statistical data for that.

It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven

Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.

Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906 by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.

There's no statistical evidence that human beings have an ability to move in and out of the markets effectively. It's next to impossible.

Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children.

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.

Statistical high Vegas odds probability is that nothing of any significance will ever happen to you in your entire boring life.

The mind and how the player feels is much more important for us, rather than statistical data.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

And empathy is narrow; it connects us to particular individuals, real or imagined, but is insensitive to numerical differences and statistical data.

We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries as a branch of rational mechanics.

It is tempting to ascribe Katrina, Rita and now Wilma to global warming effects, but I am not sure that would pass statistical muster.

... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.

Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.

The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero.

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

Control charts are one of the statistical tools for solving quality related problems.

Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races.

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.

The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing.

Sanity is not statistical.

Notre Dame had a ... sorta... statistical defense.

Other people's risks are statistical. When it's your risk, your own child, it isn't statistical anymore.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.

There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.

The rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input.

We need no elaborate statistical proof that trade depends on prosperity in the industrial countries.

I've always been in good shape. I just sucked early in my career from a statistical perspective.

I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective.

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!

Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.

You know what I hate, man? Guys that you know haven't seen the film: they just quote a bunch of statistical bullshit.

I'm not a role model. I'm an aberation. A statistical anomoly. Following in my footsteps is about the dumbest thing you could ever do.

If you want to convince the world that a fish can sense your emotions, only one statistical measure will suffice: the p-value.

As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens as a question of probability. The statistical likelihood of a specific event.

Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.

Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including newborn infants.

My very first publication was an estimator - this was a statistical procedure - a kind of invention. My father got a patent and started a business; it wasn't successful, but maybe I have some of him in me.

I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency.

There are various non-statistical tools that have been typically developed by lean companies, notably by Toyota for minimizing variability in production, such as standardization, introduction of takt time, synchronization, shortening the total production lead time which I am fond of referring to as non statistical tools.

The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods are necessary in reporting the mass data of social and economic trends, business conditions, 'opinion' polls, the census. But without writers who use the words with honesty and understanding and readers who know what they mean, the result can only be semantic nonsense.

Fairness is not about statistical equality.

In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless.

If we look at statistical data, we see that Protestant countries in terms of economic development are more successful than those observing Catholicism.

I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.

What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses.

Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number of important facts.

In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life.

...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category.

Life expectancy is a statistical phenomenon. You could still be hit by the proverbial bus tomorrow.

Sanity is not statistical - Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.

It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any animal merely statistical - not deterministic.

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.

Without bragging, I've been blessed to have five of the greatest statistical years for a running back.

If you think about it, 534 members of the U.S. Congress cannot all be religious. That's just statistical nonsense. Many of them are quite well-educated.