Order Statistics

Famous quotes containing the words order and/or statistics:

    “This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them.”
    —St. Augustine (354–430)

    “July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)