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To: publius911
"All models are wrong; some models are useful."

George E. P. Box, mathematician and professor of statistics at the University of Wisconsin

20 posted on 04/26/2018 7:06:21 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: kosciusko51

“All models are wrong; some models are useful.”


What I learned the first day of statistics 101.

STATISTICS NEVER GIVE YOU AN ANSWER, AT BEST, YOU MIGHT GET ANOTHER QUESTION.


22 posted on 04/26/2018 7:22:03 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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