Books by Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
How Animals Work
by Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
Most of this book is not statistics, it’s really physics. How can birds fly and lift themselves up in the air? How do dogs cool themselves by panting? He’s looking at things that people take for granted, and saying, these are amazing feats of engineering. One reason I connect it with statistics – it’s not only the graphs – is the fact there’s an interplay between physics modelling, data collection and statistical analysis. And that’s what statistics is all about – it’s about building real models, using real information.
Interviews where books by Knut Schmidt-Nielsen were recommended
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The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
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Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
by Daniel Kahneman & Paul Slovic and Amos Tversky -
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How Animals Work
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The Honest Rainmaker
by A J Liebling -
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How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk
by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
The best books on Statistics, recommended by Andrew Gelman
The best books on Statistics, recommended by Andrew Gelman
Award-winning statistician and political scientist Andrew Gelman says that uncertainty is an important part of life, and recognition of that uncertainty is itself an important step. He picks the best books on statistics.
