In Multiple Regression Quotes & Sayings

There is a famous painting, Nighthawks, by Edward Hopper. I am in love with that painting. Sometimes, I think everyone is like the people in that painting, everyone lost in their own private universes of pain or sorrow or guilt, everyone remote and unknowable. The painting reminds me of you. It breaks my heart. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

What nature hath joined together, multiple regression analysis cannot put asunder. — Richard E. Nisbett

You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result. — Jackson Pollock

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them. — David Ricardo

In principle, more analytic power can be achieved by varying multiple things at once in an uncorrelated (random) way, and doing standard analysis, such as multiple linear regression. In practice, though, A/B testing is widely used, because A/B tests are easy to deploy, easy to understand, and easy to explain to management. — Christopher D. Manning

It's a family joke that when I was a tiny child I turned from the window out of which I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, Momma, do we believe in winter? — Philip Roth

It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together? — LeVar Burton

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty. — Kathleen Blanco

I've always found the most tragic things funny. I was always the guy laughing at the funeral. — Andrew Gurland

Dawes observed that the complex statistical algorithm adds little or no value. One can do just as well by selecting a set of scores that have some validity for predicting the outcome and adjusting the values to make them comparable (by using standard scores or ranks). A formula that combines these predictors with equal weights is likely to be just as accurate in predicting new cases as the multiple-regression formula that was optimal in the original sample. More recent research went further: formulas that assign equal weights to all the predictors are often superior, because they are not affected by accidents of sampling. — Daniel Kahneman

Kiss me with your eyes. — Andy Warhol

There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget. — Patricia Riggen

Edward Snowden isn't a traitor. He reported the crime of conspiracy to deny citizens of their constitutional rights. — David Chiles

A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?
I make no suggestion that one side or other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true. — Terry Pratchett