Estimator Quotes

A choice may have to be made between a biased estimator which is believed to be relatively accurate and an unbiased estimator which is demonstrably highly inefficient, and it is by no means obvious that the latter is always to be preferred. (Richard Stone)
My very first publication was an estimator - this was a statistical procedure - a kind of invention. My father got a patent and started a business; it wasn't successful, but maybe I have some of him in me. View quote
Robert J. Shiller
I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take. View quote
Donald Knuth