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Non-Stats Books for Statisticians
1.
The Foundations of Scientific Inference: 50th Anniversary Edition
by:
Wesley C. Salmon
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
2.
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
by:
Edward R. Tufte
4.39 avg rating — 8,576 ratings
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
by:
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
4.08 avg rating — 69,675 ratings
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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
by:
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
4.10 avg rating — 55,997 ratings
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The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
by:
Judea Pearl
3.94 avg rating — 6,381 ratings
6.
Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide
by:
Alex Reinhart
4.19 avg rating — 1,067 ratings
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by:
Cathy O'Neil
3.87 avg rating — 29,311 ratings
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The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design
by:
Michael Kearns
4.11 avg rating — 651 ratings
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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
by:
Virginia Eubanks
4.01 avg rating — 2,737 ratings
10.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by:
Daniel Kahneman
4.17 avg rating — 564,548 ratings
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The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics
by:
Stanislas Dehaene
4.01 avg rating — 605 ratings
12.
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
by:
Karl Popper
4.03 avg rating — 5,360 ratings
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by:
Thomas S. Kuhn
4.03 avg rating — 29,124 ratings
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Statistics on the Table: The History of Statistical Concepts and Methods
by:
Stephen M. Stigler
3.98 avg rating — 53 ratings
15.
Measurement Theory for Engineers
by:
Ilya Gertsbakh
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
by:
Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
3.76 avg rating — 2,741 ratings
17.
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
by:
Nate Silver
3.97 avg rating — 51,882 ratings
18.
Bad Science
by:
Ben Goldacre
4.06 avg rating — 44,416 ratings
19.
The Tyranny of Metrics
by:
Jerry Z. Muller
3.69 avg rating — 1,745 ratings
20.
Trust in Numbers
by:
Theodore M. Porter
3.87 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)
by:
Peter Godfrey-Smith
3.93 avg rating — 1,528 ratings
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The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century
by:
David Salsburg
3.92 avg rating — 1,974 ratings
23.
Science, Policy, and the Value-Free Ideal
by:
Heather E. Douglas
3.93 avg rating — 75 ratings
24.
How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
by:
Thomas Gilovich
3.95 avg rating — 3,155 ratings
25.
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking
by:
Gerald M. Weinberg
3.95 avg rating — 666 ratings
26.
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
by:
Peter L. Bernstein
3.96 avg rating — 14,183 ratings
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Statistical Evidence: A Likelihood Paradigm (Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability)
by:
Richard Royall
4.30 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes
by:
Frederick Schauer
3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings
29.
The White Album
by:
Joan Didion
4.03 avg rating — 47,333 ratings