"The tool that is so dull that you cannot cut yourself on it is not likely to be sharp enough to be either useful or helpful."
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Mathematicians from the United StatesStatisticiansNational Medal of Science laureatesPrinceton University alumniScientists from Massachusetts
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The Technical Tools of Statistics. The American Statistician 19 (2), (1965). Online at https://www.jstor.org/stable/2682374
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John Tukey
John Tukey (16 June 1915 – 26 July 2000) was an American statistician.
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