Clergyman's

We can only hope that statisticians will return to the use of the simple, lucid reasoning of Bayes's conceptions, and accord to the likelihood theory its proper role.
- Richard von Mises

Because certain elements of geometry have for a long time been included in the general course of education, every educated man is able to distinguish between the practical task of the land surveyor and the theoretical investigation of the geometer. The corresponding distinction between the theory of probability and statistics has yet to be recognized.
- Richard von Mises

Because certain elements of geometry have for a long time been included in the general course of education, every educated man is able to distinguish between the practical task of the land surveyor and the theoretical investigation of the geometer. The corresponding distinction between the theory of probability and statistics has yet to be recognized.
- Richard von Mises

The main interest of physical statistics lies in fact not so much in the distribution of the phenomena in space, but rather in their succession in time.
- Richard von Mises

No contradiction exists, if the events are correctly interpreted.
- Richard von Mises

It has been asserted - and this is no overstatement - that whereas other sciences draw their conclusions from what we know, the science of probability derives its most important results from what we do not know.
- Richard von Mises

The mean and variance are unambiguously determined by the distribution, but a distribution is, of course, not determined by its mean and variance: A number of different distributions have the same mean and the same variance.
- Richard von Mises

The mean and variance are unambiguously determined by the distribution, but a distribution is, of course, not determined by its mean and variance: A number of different distributions have the same mean and the same variance.
- Richard von Mises

The whole financial basis of insurance would be questionable if it were possible to change the relative frequency of the occurrence of the insurance cases by excluding, for example, every tenth one of the insured persons, or by some selection principal.
- Richard von Mises

In games of chance, in the problems of insurance, and in the molecular processes we find events repeating themselves again and again. They are mass phenomena or repetitive events.
- Richard von Mises