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Polynomials are notoriously untrustworthy when extrapolated.

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A person's opinion of an institution that conducts thousands of transactions every day is often determined by the one or two encounters which he has had with the institution in the course of several years.

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Our knowledge, our attitudes, and our actions are based to a very large extent on samples.

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William Gemmell Cochran

William Gemmell Cochran

Born: July 15, 1909
Died: March 29, 1980 (aged 70)
Bio: William Gemmell Cochran was a prominent statistician. He was born in Scotland but spent most of his life in the United States.
Known for:
  1. Sampling Techniques (1953)
  2. Experimental designs (1944)
  3. Law Lexicon

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