Trailer for the No Bullshit Guide to Statistics [video]
youtube.comSee also announce blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543069
Direct links to previews PDFs: - Part 1: https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSstats_part1_pr... [223pp, 9MB] - Part 2: https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSstats_part2_pr... [191pp, 16MB]
Concept maps: https://minireference.com/static/conceptmaps/statistics_conc...
Would love to hear your feedback.
i have not not looked at any of the the video, chapter or the links. this is off-the-cuff question, why another statistics book? what so "no-bullshit" about it?
Good question. I had to think about it.
In general, the No Bullshit Guide textbooks (of which there are four) differ from other textbooks by being intensely focussed on learner needs: they are written in a conversational stile, get to the point, explain the WHY? behind concepts, and focus on applications rather than theory and formal proofs
This book specifically is special because it uses a computational approach to explain the core ideas of statistics like sampling distributions. Think for loop that generates random samples, computes their means, and plots the results. This allows readers to understand what's going on directly rather than rely on formulas or predefined procedures (recipes) for statistical analysis. See here for more about the UVP of this book: https://minireference.com/blog/nobsstats-sales-pitch/#:~:tex...