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is a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.

Statistics may be defined as 'a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.' - W.A. Wallis

is associated with a zeal to reform society, how to grasp a complex and changing whole from the knowledge of parts.

The problem of representation in the history of statistical theory concerned the question of how one could grasp a complex and changing 'whole' from knowledge of a 'part', and the anser to that question evolved out of changing political and conceptual practices in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries' (Asad 1994:71).

is just a way for the mathematician to evangelize his faith.

Statistics are just a way for the mathematician to evangelize his faith. - Hunter Brinkmeier

is like a bikini: What shows is real, but what's hidden is vital.

Statistics are like a bikini-what shows is real, but what's hidden is vital.

is like a bikini: What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. - Aaron Levenstein

98% of all statistics are made up. - Author Unknown

is a delicate dissection of uncertainties, a surgery of suppositions.

A statistical analysis, properly conducted, is a delicate dissection of uncertainties, a surgery of suppositions. - M.J. Moroney

is a discipline grounded in the idea that if you torture numbers, they'll confess to anything.

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