Bradley Efron quotes
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“Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.”
-- Bradley EfronSource : "'The Role of Statistics in the Data Revolution?'. International Statistical Review 69: 5-10" by Jerome H. Friedman, April 2001.
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“New methods always look better than old ones. Neural nets are better than logistic regression, support vector machines are better than neural nets, etc.”
-- Bradley Efron
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“If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth”
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“Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.”
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“The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so”
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“To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.”
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“You see, but you do not observe.”
Source : "A Scandal in Bohemia" (1891)
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