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The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom

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 | #48102 in Books |  Stigler Stephen M |  2016-03-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.90 x.80 x5.40l,.0 | File type: PDF | 240 pages

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||154 of 159 people found the following review helpful.| An excellent book on the subject it treats|By George Hariton|An excellent book on the subject it treats. Unfortunately the subject is extremely specialized, and that is not clear from either the title or the blurbs.

Stigler has long been the pre-eminent historian of statistics. In this book, not only does he identify the origins of seven very important ideas in s| |The hardest kind of scientific thinking concerns what’s in a field’s basement―and Stigler has brought a bright flashlight to his subterranean investigations of the ever-more-influential field of statistics. (Bradley Efron, Stanford University)

What gives statistics its unity as a science? Stephen Stigler sets forth the seven foundational ideas of statistics―a scientific discipline related to but distinct from mathematics and computer science.

Even the most basic idea―aggregation, exemplified by averaging―is counterintuitive. It allows one to gain information by discarding information, namely, the individuality of the observations. Stigler’s second pillar, information measurement,...

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