Our ability to use data effectively to make decisions or understand the world depends on our ability to see patterns and abstract from those patterns.
Felicia B LeClere (1958 - )
Our ability to use data effectively to make decisions or understand the world depends on our ability to see patterns and abstract from those patterns.
Felicia B LeClere (1958 - )
The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses.
Emily Fair Oster (1980- )
America is shamefully inadequate at teaching statistics. A student can travel from kindergarten to a Ph.D. without ever encountering the subject. Yet statistics are ubiquitous in life, and so should be statistical reasoning.
Alan S. Blinder (1945 - )
| Clue | Clue |
|---|---|
| dome | maiden |
| said rule | anger |
| level curb | maples |
| meet irises | rain cave |
| true oil | cool terrain |
| next premise | tour skis |
| salsa request | fenced icon |
| its logic | in a limbo |
| poisons | persona |
| dust tents | trap oily bib |
Statistics Anagrams!
Directions: Rearrange the letters of each clue's word or phrase to form a statistical word or phrase. For example, the word "name" can be rearranged to form the word "mean."
by Lawrence Mark Lesser and Dennis K. Pearl
A
Better
Confidence:
Data.
Expectations
Fit
Good.
Hypothesizing,
I
Jettison
Kurtosis,
Leptokurtic
Moments.
Normality
Obliges
Parameters.
Qualification:
Rejecting
Significance,
Testing
Uniform
Variance
While
X-bars
Yield
Z-scores.
Nothing is not, said he,
The absence of anything.
Why so?, said she.
Because, said he,
Recall Aristotle?
Well no, said she.
It's so subtle, said he.
There are two varieties
Of empty cells, you see,
Empty of necessity
And empty accidentally, said he.
Uh?, said she,
I don't get it.
It's Nothing, said he,
Forget it.