Citations statistiques / Statistics quotations

A Statistician's Lament

I've been studying statistics over 40 years and still don't understand it. The ease with which non-statisticians master it is staggering.

- Stephen Senn (Prof. University Glasgow)

J'étudie les statistiques depuis plus de 40 ans et je ne les comprends toujours pas. La facilité avec laquelle les non-statisticiens les maîtrisent est stupéfiante.

- Stephen Senn (Prof. University Glasgow)

Quelques citations / Some quotations

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of
~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher

The plural of anecdote is not data
~ Roger Brinner

The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data
~ John Tukey

Statistics is the humanities of the mathematics
~Ken Gerow (Prof. of statistics, USA)