Quotes & Sayings About Confidence Intervals

My second decision, to leave out statistical esoterica, was made with much less regret. I don't mention confidence intervals, sample sizes, p values, and similar devices in Dataclysm because the book is above all a popularization of data and data science. Mathematical wonkiness wasn't what I wanted to get across. — Christian Rudder

By comparing the confidence intervals of different means (or other parameters) we can get some idea about whether the means came from the same or different populations. FIGURE — Andy Field

I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high. — Charlotte Bronte