Sufficient Statistics

Famous quotes containing the words sufficient and/or statistics:

    “A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.”
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    “We ask for no statistics of the killed,
    For nothing political impinges on
    This single casualty, or all those gone,
    Missing or healing, sinking or dispersed,
    Hundreds of thousands counted, millions lost.”
    —Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)