Statistically Speaking

Gaither, C.C.

• Preface -- Actuary -- Analysis -- Average -- Bayesian -- Cause and Effect -- Certainty -- Chance -- Common Sense -- Correlation -- Data -- Definitions -- Degrees of Freedom -- Design of Experiments -- Dice -- Distributions -- Error -- Experiment -- Facts -- Forecast -- Gambling -- Graphics -- Hypotheses -- Impossible -- Infinite -- Knowledge -- Laws -- Likelihood -- Measurement -- Models -- Observations -- Order -- Outliers -- Percentages -- Prayer -- Prediction -- Probability -- Probable -- Problems -- Quality Control -- Queue -- Randomness -- Reason -- Recursion -- Regression -- Research -- Residuals -- Sample -- Science -- Statistical -- Statistician -- Statistics -- Surveys and Questionnaires -- Symmetry -- Tables -- Teaching -- Testing -- Theory -- Truth -- Variability

"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 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"… 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