“It is easy to lie with statistics. It is hard to tell the truth without it.”

— Andrejs Dunkels

cited in: Andrea Varsavsky, ‎Iven Mareels, ‎Mark Cook (2010). Epileptic Seizures and the EEG. p. 89

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1939–1998

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