"A problem of statistical inference or, more simply, a statistics problem is a problem in which data that have been generated in accordance with some unknown probability distribution must be analyzed and some type of inference about the unknown distribution must be made."

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Source : Morris H. DeGroot, Mark J. Schervish (2002). “Probability and Statistics”, Addison Wesley

Morris H. DeGroot

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“I admire people that help other people without asking anything in return, which is something that's really rare these days and hard to find.”

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“People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say.”

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“Practicing discipline involves continually working to find space in our patterns, to find the gaps in the images we hold about ourselves. It also means finding the gaps in our ideas about others, releasing images that we hold about a manager, a coworker, a friend, or a partner.”
“There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded efforts to keep a tight ontological control are rendered silly and indulgent.”

Source : Oriana Fallaci (2002). “The Rage and the Pride”, Rizzoli International Publications
“Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.”
“I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of brute force. I am inclined to look at everything as resulting from designed laws, with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me. I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can.”
“I can look back at my darkest periods and realize that these were the times when the Lord was holding me closest. But I couldn't see His face becasue my face was in His breast...crying.”
“The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.”

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