Everybody knows one epigram about statistics and, yes, here it is in
Statistically Speaking (Institute of Physics, £19.95/$40, ISBN 0
7503 0401 4), a collection of wise, striking and frequently witty remarks about
them. The contents are arranged by subject so that you can find your way around
easily. Subject? Isn’t it statistics? Yes, but the compilers C. C. Gaither and
A. E. Cavazos-Gaither have gathered quotations from every area, even those with
only a remote connection. The book is staggeringly comprehensive and as full of
ammunition as a bandolier.
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