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Review of "Statistics" by Freedman, Pisani, and Purves (2017)
pends crucially on mathematics, but it is not subordinate in this dependence. Much of the power of statistics is in common sense, amplified by appropriate mathematical tools, and refined through careful analysis.
The tools of statistics are designed to develop a quantitative understanding of real phenomena, by providing a microscope of sorts (or telescope, if you’d prefer) to bring this experiential data into focus. The vision of the book is that in September you can start with a room of starry-eyed 18-20 year olds, ignorant of even the most basic descriptive statistics, and by December they’ll be dutifully filling out ANOVA tables. Traditionally conterintuitive topics, such as the law of large numbers, or the interpretation of things such as confidence intervals & p-values, are explained both in a relatively straightforward fashion in the text, and also by way of Socratic dialogs.
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