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No observations are absolutely trustworthy.

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One sufficiently erroneous reading can wreck the whole of a statistical analysis, however many observations there are.

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Rejection rules are not significance tests.

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An observation with an abnormally large residual will be referred to as an outlier. Other terms in English are "wild", "straggler", "sport" and "maverick"; one may also speak of a "discordant", "anomalous" or "aberrant" observation.

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Born: May 13, 1918
Died: October 17, 2001 (aged 83)
Bio: Francis John "Frank" Anscombe was an English statistician.

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