Hillary Clinton
American politician, diplomat, and presidential candidate (born 1947)
John Tukey
American mathematician (1915-2000)
John Wilder Tukeywas an American mathematician and statistician, best known for the development of the fast Fourier Transformalgorithm and box plot. The Tukey range test, the Tukey lambda distribution, the Tukey test of additivity, and the Teichmuller-Tukey lemma all bear his name.
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About the John Tukey
John Wilder Tukeywas an American mathematician and statistician, best known for the development of the fast Fourier Transformalgorithm and box plot. The Tukey range test, the Tukey lambda distribution, the Tukey test of additivity, and the Teichmuller-Tukey lemma all bear his name. He is also credited with coining the term bit and the first published use of the word software.
3 Quotes by John Tukey
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Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
John TukeyAmerican mathematician (1915-2000)
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An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.
John TukeyAmerican mathematician (1915-2000)
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Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.
John TukeyAmerican mathematician (1915-2000)