Interesting Books and Web Sites on Statistics

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Statistical Literacy

• Say It With Figures by Hans Zeisel, Harper & Row, 5^th edition, 1968.
• Prove It With Figures: Empirical Methods in Law and Litigation by Zeisel & Kaye. Springer.

Statistics in Arguments (Statistics in Action!)

• The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould, Penguin Books, 1981.
• The Bell Curve by Herrnstein and Murray, Simon and Shuster, 1995.
• Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins, Viking, 1996.
• Phantom Risk by Foster, Bernstein and Huber, 1993 MIT Press.
• Galileo's Revenge by Peter Huber, 1991 Basic Books, Harper Collins.

Popular Statistics

• How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff, W.W. Norton and Co., 20^th ed., 1954.
• Flaws and Fallacies in Statistical Thinking by Stephen Campbell, Prentice Hall, 1974.
• How to Use (and Misuse) Statistics by Gregory Kimble, Prentice Hall, 1978.
• How to Tell the Liars from the Statisticians by Hooke, Marcel Decker 1983.
• Misused Statistics by Jaffe and Spirer, Marcel Decker 1987.
• A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper by John Paulos, Harper Collins, 1995.
• Once upon a Number–the hidden mathematical Logic of Stories by Paulos, Perseus, '98.
• Sense and Nonsense of Statistical Inference by Chamont Wang, Marcel Decker, 1993.

Statistics and Journalism (Quantitative Journalism)

• News & Numbers: A Guide to Reporting Statistical Claims by Vic Cohn, Iowa State U.
• The New Precision Journalism by Phillip Meyer, Indiana Univ. 1991 pb.

Statistics and the Law

• The Evolving Role of Statistical Assessments as Evidence in the Courts by Fienberg, Springer.
• Statistics and the Law by DeGroot, Fienberg & Kadane. Wiley, 1994.
• A Probabilistic Analysis of the Sacco & Vanzetti Evidence by Kadane & Schum, Wiley, 1996.
• Judging Science: Scientific Knowledge and the Courts by Foster & Huber, MIT Press, 1997

Statistics and the Social Sciences

• Evaluating Information: Social Science Research by Katzer, Cook and Crouch, McGraw-Hill.
• Elements of Statistics for the Life and Social Sciences by Braxton Alfred, Springer, 1987.
• An Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Historians by Roderick Floud, Metheun. 1979.
• Historian's Guide to Statistics by Dollar and Jensen, Holt, Rhinehart & Winston, 1971 pb.

Teaching Statistics

• Teaching Statistical Concepts by Hawkins, Jolliffe & Glickman, 1992 pb.
• Statistics: A Spectator Sport by Richard M. Jaeger, Sage Publications pb.

Statistics Textbooks

• Descriptive and Inferential Statistics by Loether & McTavish, 1974.
• Beginning Statistics with Data Analysis by Mosteller, Fienberg & Rouke, 1983.
• Statistics by David Freedman, Pisani, Purves and Adhikari, W. W. Norton. 1978.
• Introductory Statistics by Tom Wonnacott and Ronald Wonnacott, 5^th ed. Wiley, 1990.
• Statistics: Learning in the Presence of Variation by Robert Wardrop, Wm. C. Brown, 1995.
• Seeing Through Statistics by Jessica M. Utts, Duxbury Press, 1996 pb.
• Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences by Agresti & Finlay, Prentice Hall, 3^rd ed., 1997.
• Introduction to Statistical Reasoning by Gary Smith, McGraw Hill, 1998.
• Understanding Data: Principles & Practice of Statistics: Griffiths, Stifling & Weldon, Wiley.
• Statistics: The Conceptual Approach by Gudmund Iversen & Mary Gergen, 1999.

Data Analysis

• Exploratory Data Analysis by John W. Tukey, Addison Wesley, 1977.
• Understanding Robust and Exploratory Data Analysis by Hoaglin, Mosteller & Tukey.
• Exploring Data Tables, Trends and Shapes by Hoaglin, Mosteller & Tukey, 1985.

Contingency Tables, Rates and Proportions

• Statistical Methods for Rates and Proportions by Joseph Fleiss, Wiley 1981.
• Multiway Contingency Tables Analysis for the Social Sciences by Wickens, Erlbaum, 1989.
• The Analysis of Cross-Classified Categorical Data by Fienberg, MIT Press, 2^nd ed. 1994.
• The Analysis of Contingency Tables by B. S. Everitt, Chapman and Hall, 2^nd ed. 1997.

Bayesian versus Classical; Philosophy of Science

• Scientific Reasoning: The Bayesian Approach by Colin Howson & Peter Urbach.
• Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge by Deborah Mayo.
• Statistical Decision Theory and Bayesian Analysis by James O. Berger.

Statistical Inference (Traditional)

• The Significance Test Controversy edited by Morrison and Henkel, Aldine Publ.
• Statistics as Principled Argument by Abelson, Erlbaum, 1995 pb.

Bayesian Statistics

• The Estimation of Probabilities by I. J. Good, MIT Press, 1965.

Bias in Making Statistical Judgments

• Judgment under Uncertainty by Kahneman, Slovic and Tversky, 1982.
• Behavioral Decision Theory by E. C. Poulton, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994.

Computer Intensive Methods

• Computer Intensive Methods for Teaching Hypotheses by Eric Noreen, Wiley, 1989.
• Permutation Tests by Phillip Good, Springer Series in Statistics, 1994.
• Resampling: The New Statistics by Julian Simon. Resampling Stats Inc., 1992
• Randomization, Bootstrap & Monte Carlo in Biology by Manly, Chapman-Hall, 1997.

Quasi Experimental Designs

• Experimental & Quasi-Experimental Designs by Campbell & Stanley, Houghton, 1963.
• Quasi-experimentation by Cook and Campbell. Houghton-Mifflin, 1979 pb.

Observational Studies

• Observational Statistics by Paul Rosenbaum, Springer-Verlag, 1995.

Epidemiology

• Methods in Observational Epidemiology by Kelsey, Thompson & Evans, Oxford Press, 1986.
• Primer of Epidemiology by Gary Friedman, McGraw Hill, 4^th ed., 1994 pb.
• Foundations of Epidemiology by Lilienfield and Stolley, Oxford University Press, 1994.
• Intuitive Biostatistics by Harvey Motulsky, Oxford University Press, 1995.
• An Introduction to Medical Statistics by Martin Bland, Oxford Medical Publ. 2^nd ed. 1995.
• Epidemiology by Christie, Gordon and Heller, Univ. of New South Wales, 2^nd ed. 1997 pb.

Cross-Level Inference; Identification

• Cross-Level Inference by Achen and Shively. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1995 pb.
• Identification Problems in the Social Sciences by Manski, Harvard Press, 1995.

Probabilistic Causality: General

• Probabilistic Causality in Longitudinal Studies by Eerola, Springer Note #92 pb.
• Evidential Foundations of Probabilistic Reasoning by David Shum, Wiley 1994.
• Causality and Explanation by Wesley Salmon, Oxford Univ. Press, 1998.

Probabilistic Causality: Specific

• The Logic of the Causal Order by James Davis, Sage Publication #55, 1985 pb.
• Statistical Models for Causal Analysis by Retherford and Kim Choe, Wiley, 1993.
• The Art of Causal Conjecture by Glenn Shafer. The MIT Press, 1996.
• Probabilistic Expert Systems by Glenn Shafer, SIAM, 1996.

Interesting Web sites on statistics

• Judea Pearl: singapore.cs.ucla.edu/jp_home.html
• Glenn Shafer: www.rutgers.edu/Accounting/raw/gsm/glenhome.htm
• Donald Rubin: www.fas.harvard.edu/~stats/Stat-courses/Stat-courses-list.html
• Spirtes: http://hss.cmu.edu/HTML/departments/philosophy/people/directory/Peter_Spirtes.html
• Richard Jefrey: http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~eyeghiay/Philosophy/Faculty/Visiting/jeffrey.html

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