
<p>Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
-- Niels Bohr</p>
<p>Everybody believes in the exponential law of errors [i.e., the Normal distribution]: the experimenters, because they think it can be proved by mathematics; and the mathematicians, because they believe it has been established by observation.
-- Whittaker, E. T. and Robinson, G. &quot;Normal Frequency Distribution.&quot;</p>
<p>Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.
-- Brad Efron</p>

Eric Farng