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Curve Ball: Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game
Jim Albert, Jay Bennett
Springer, 2003
baseball statistics interpreted by professional statisticians
+ Non Fiction
+ good statisticians, pretty good writers
+ For people with serious statistical interest
+ Good, but could have been better
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The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century
David Salsburg
Owl Books, 2002
a biostatisticians view of 20th century statistics
+ Great book on the history of statistics in the 20th Century
+ Inspiring!
+ Outstanding for a narrow audience.....
+ Story of the statistical revolution of the 20th century
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Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks
Andrew Gelman, Deborah Nolan
Oxford University Press, USA, 2002
Makes introductory statistics fun!
+ neat stuff for my basic social stats course
Introductory statistics is a course dreaded by many students, and even some teaching staff, and for good reason: many introductory statistics courses deal with examples that are distant from students' experience, and so students never care about the course material, and focus simply on surviving ...
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Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
John Allen Paulos
Hill and Wang, 2001
An Interesting Read
+ Must-Reading
+ Very good book
+ Good despite the self-referential inference to innumeracy
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Understanding Probability and Statistics
Ruma Falk
A K Peters Ltd, 1991
Warmly Recommended
Falk gives a varied and intriguing selection of problems (with scrupulous credit to the original sources) and explains the more challenging of them in helpful detail. Classical problems in the field (Pascal, Galileo) are included along with more recent ones (the Monty Hall perplexity). The invented ...
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Seeing Through Statistics (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac )
Jessica M. Utts
Duxbury Press, 2004
Wonderful conceptual view of the role of statistics
+ A new look at stats.
+ Book Contents
I purchased this book to review it for a high school class in introductory statistics for enriched math students. Often mathematical subjects are criticized because they place emphasis on individual concepts, and the student doesn't learn what the concepts for used for until the end of the chapter ...
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Teaching Statistics Using Baseball
Jim Albert
The Mathematical Association of America, 2003
A hit about hits
+ statistics professor teaches statistics and sabermetrics
+ an excellent read, very helpful
If there is one thing that separates the baseball fan from those of other sports, it is their fascination with statistics. By this, I mean the raw data, not the detailed analysis. An enormous amount of data is kept about baseball players and their accomplishments, and nearly all of it is online. It ...
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Introduction to Design and Analysis of Experiments
George W. Cobb
Key College, 2002
Data analysis is an interpretive activity. George Cobb's goals in Introduction to Design and Analysis of Experiments are to explain how to choose sound and suitable design structures and to engage the student in understanding the interpretive and constructive nature of data analysis and experimental design. Developed over years of classroom use, this text can be used as an introduction to ...
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Statistics: Concepts and Controversies
David S. Moore, William I. Notz
W. H. Freeman, 2005
one of David Moore's excellent books on statistics
+ a better textbook
+ Great!
+ Promotes Good Mathematical and Statistical Habits, as Well as Statistical Literacy
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How to Lie With Statistics
Darrell Huff
W. W. Norton & Company, 1993
very popular account of how statistics can be misused
+ Excellent Start for the beginners to the subject of Statistics
+ Great title - and very factual
+ Classic introduction to the topic
+ An entertaining and informative look at how statistics can be mis-used!
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Best Test Prep AP Statistics with CD-ROM (REA) The Best Test Prep for the AP Statistics Exam with TESTware ...
Robin Levine-Wissing, David Thiel
Research & Education Association, 2006
REA's new TESTware edition of AP Statistics 3rd edition is completely aligned with the 2006 AP Statistics exam. Covers all AP Statistics areas including in-depth coverage of univariate and bivariate data, measures of dispersion, sampling, and hypothesis testing. The comprehensive review covers every exam topic: exploring data, planning a study, anticipating patterns, and statistical inferences. ...
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Statistics, Third Edition
David Freedman, Robert Pisani, ...
W. W. Norton & Company, 1997
great for a first course to non-statistics majors
+ Excellent Introductory Text
+ A famous edition
+ Math can be fun! :-)
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Statistics for Experimenters: Design, Innovation, and Discovery , 2nd Edition
George E. P. Box, J. Stuart Hunter, ...
Wiley-Interscience, 2005
classic revised
+ BHH, 2nd Edition
+ Long-awaited update to a classic
I am a mathematical statistician and I appreciate and understand modern books on experimental designs such as the book by Wu and Hamada. However the first edition of this book became an immediate classic because George Box is a genius and is a rare bread of statisticians who have strong ...
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Mind on Statistics (with CD-ROMs, CengageNOW, iLrn Homework Student Version, InfoTrac 2-Semester, Personal ...
Jessica M. Utts, Robert F. Heckard
Duxbury Press, 2006
Great Service
Book came in a timely fashion, was ture to posting, in very good condition. Pleasure working with the seller.
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Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
Joel Best
University of California Press, 2001
Great book
+ Damn Lies and Statistics
+ An Excellent Beginner's Guide to the Use and Misuse of Social Statistics
+ It does what it is supposed to do
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