Order Statistics

Famous quotes containing the words order and/or statistics:

“The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.”
—Baruch (Benedict)

“O for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)