Log Odds Ratio

Famous quotes containing the words log, odds and/or ratio:

“‘T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine stump. With it comes a Latin grammar,—and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed!”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“A man can seldom—very, very, seldom—fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)