{"id":2272,"date":"2011-01-07T12:32:53","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T17:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2011-02-16T12:05:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T17:05:33","slug":"five-books-that-changed-a-statistician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=2272","title":{"rendered":"Five books that changed a statistician"},"content":{"rendered":"

GELMAN’S FIVE BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS<\/p>\n

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There’s a nice article in The Browser in which Statistician and Political Scientist Extraordinaire Andrew Gelman recommends five books<\/a>. It is definitely worth a read. We learned something about baseball from it and have decided to buy a book on child rearing based on its recommendations. [We already knew the stuff about decision making, bien sur<\/em>]<\/p>\n

Since Andrew is a friend of the blog and\u00a0 a notorious chart<\/a> curmudgeon<\/a>, we thought that for this post we would create a useful infotainmentgraphic, above, with which no reasonable person should find fault. We’ve subbed the Bill James Historical Baseball Almanac for the Annual editions from 1982-1986 because it is supposed to be Five Books<\/a>, not Nine Books, but Five.<\/p>\n

Without further ado, Gelman’s five. Again, don’t miss the article<\/a> for the explanations.<\/p>\n

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\nThe New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract <\/a><\/p>\n

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\n\"\"Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nHow Animals Work<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nThe Honest Rainmaker<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nHow to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk<\/a><\/p>\n

ADDENDUM: With Andrew’s expert advice<\/a>, we were able to improve the graphic a little:<\/p>\n

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ADDENDUM 2: I found some even better charts! Click to see full size.<\/p>\n

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