Mitt Romney Quotes

I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models.

I've never been a stat guy.

Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance.

Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him."

I'm a bit of a freak for evidence-based analysis. I strongly believe in data.

We spend our time bandying statistics about.

The numbers are hard to control.

I'm not too worried about stats and stuff like that.

I've got a lot of stats. I did a lot of stuff.

But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world. Bell curves and random walks define what the future is going to look like. The standard pedagogical argument is that high schools should get rid of calculus and replace it with statistics, which is really important and actually useful. There has been a powerful shift toward the idea that statistical ways of thinking are going to drive the future.

The analysis of statistics is a big part of the modern game, and it's important as a modern manager to embrace areas that can help your team and players improve.

Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.

The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape.

Some people hate the very name of statistics, but I find them full of beauty and interest. Whenever they are not brutalized, but delicately handled by the higher methods, and are warily interpreted, their power of dealing with complicated phenomena is extraordinary. They are the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

I am not very good at statistics. I am also a poor thinker.

I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.

Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics. Now I agree that the physicist, the chemist, the engineer, and the statistician can never know too much mathematics, but their objectives should be better physics, better chemistry, better engineering, and in the case of statistics, better scientific investigation. Whether in any given study this implies more or less mathematics is incidental.

One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.

Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.

as an economics professor I am by nature inclined to the view that the truth isn't out there, it's in here - that usually you learn a lot more by thinking really hard about the data than you do by sniffing around for supposedly inside information.

... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.

I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I'm joking, but who would've guessed that computer engineers would've been the sexy job of the 1990s?