Lorena

“Longitudinal data sets are the research equivalent of a Ferrari. Not surprisingly, we can't always have the Ferrari. The research equivalent of a Toyota is a cross-sectional data set.”
― Charles Wheelan, Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

“Data are to statistics what a good offensive is to a star quarterback.”
― Charles Wheelan, Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

“Skepticism is always a good first response.”
― Charles Wheelan, Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

“The beauty of the normal distribution - its Michael Jordan power, finesse, and elegance - comes from the fact that we know by definition exactly what proportion of the observations in a normal distribution lie within one standard deviation of the mean (68.2 percent), within two standard deviations of the mean (95.4 percent), within three standard deviations of the mean (99.7 percent), and so on.”
― Charles Wheelan, Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data