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…because the students were encouraged to use SPSS and other software tools. If you are looking for an outstanding introduction to statistics, I highly recommend the following textbook: Healey, Joseph (2014) Statistics: A Tool for Social Research, 10th Edition For those seeking a good conceptual knowledge of statistics based on real-world examples, including criticism of the limitations of statistical analysis, I would suggest these excellent…
on “Ask HN: What is your favorite book for learning statistics?” ↗…level; anyone can read and understand these books, regardless of their educational background. Ian Ayres (2007) Super Crunchers: Why Thinking by Numbers is the New Way to Be Smart Joseph Healey (2020) Statistics: A Tool for Social Research [This is the textbook used in the class, which I highly recommend] Catherine Marsh and Jane Elliott (2008) Exploring Data: An Introduction to Data Analysis for Social Scientists, second edition John…
on “More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding” ↗…level; anyone can read and understand these books, regardless of their educational background. Ian Ayres (2007) Super Crunchers: Why Thinking by Numbers is the New Way to Be Smart. Joseph Healey (2020) Statistics: A Tool for Social Research [This is the textbook used in the class, which I highly recommend]. John Allen Paulos (1988) Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences. Nate Silver (2012) The Signal and the Noise: Why…
on “Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?” ↗…with many real-world examples] 2. Bernstein, Peter (1996) Against the Gods: Remarkable Story of Risk [Intellectual history of statistics, accessible to beginning students.] 3. Healey, Joseph (2005) Statistics: A Tool for Social Research, 7E [This is the text book that was used in the undergraduate statistics courses while I was working as a teaching assistant at UC Santa Cruz.] 4. Kahneman, Daniel (2011) Thinking, Fast and Slow [Kahneman…
on “Recommended Self-Study Path for Statistics” ↗