“All models are wrong, but some are useful.”
Box & Draper (1987), Empirical model-building...
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statistics
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Voices on statistics
“An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.”
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“In God we trust. All others must bring data.”
“No matter what the statistics say, there's always a way.”
“All generalizations are false, including this one.”
“Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.”
“To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.”
“Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.”