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Professor of Statistics and Political Science at Columbia University and author of Bayesian Data Analysis.
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How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will TalkBook Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
Yes, perhaps the best book every written: How to Talk so Kids will Listen and Listen so Kids will Talk, by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish. This was a book that I read years ago because it happened to be on my sister's bookshelf, and it really did change my life.
Five Books interview on statistics
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The Honest RainmakerBook A J Liebling
That's kind of the point – it's this lovable rogue, this guy who was never as successful as all that, but he would somehow just manage to stay afloat. To me it felt very statistical, the whole book.
Five Books interview on statistics
2011-01-03·fivebooks.com ↗
The Bill James Historical Baseball AbstractBook Bill James
Baseball and statistics traditionally go together. One of my inspirations to become a statistician was reading The Bill James Baseball Abstracts.
Five Books interview on statistics
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Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and BiasesBook Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic & Amos Tversky
This work started out as a bit of a curiosity in the field of psychology, but we get a lot of insight from it, it is absolutely essential to understanding how humans think.
Five Books interview on statistics
2011-01-03·fivebooks.com ↗
How Animals WorkBook Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
The book has a lot of things like that. He's looking at things that people take for granted, and saying, you can't just take these things for granted, these are amazing feats of engineering.
Five Books interview on statistics
2011-01-03·fivebooks.com ↗
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