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See also announce blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543069 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543069 Direct links to previews PDFs: - Part
by ivansavz 11mo ago
See also announce blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543069 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543069
Direct links to previews PDFs:
- Part 1: https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSstats_part1_preview.pdf https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSstats_part1_pr... [223pp, 9MB]
- Part 2: https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSstats_part2_preview.pdf https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSstats_part2_pr... [191pp, 16MB]
Concept maps: https://minireference.com/static/conceptmaps/statistics_concepts.pdf https://minireference.com/static/conceptmaps/statistics_conc...
Would love to hear your feedback.
- jackallis 11mo agoi 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?
- ivansavz 11mo agoGood 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/#:~:text=What%20is%20so%20special%20about%20this%20book%3F https://minireference.com/blog/nobsstats-sales-pitch/#:~:tex...