Re: [OT][Long][You All Know Everything Dept] Recommendations for Stat book?

From: Joe Marshall (jrm_at_ccs.neu.edu)
Date: 06/10/04 

Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:19:48 -0400

Kenny Tilton <ktilton@nyc.rr.com> writes:

> This OT post falls in the "Lispniks Know Everything Department". The
> last time I mentioned that I got a nice borscht recipe. Now someone is
> looking for a good stat book, and reported no luck with NGs specific
> to that.

For an `unorthodox' approach, try
   http://omega.math.albany.edu:8008/JaynesBook.html

Jaynes was an extremely bright physicist who rejected standard
probability and statistics in favor of the Bayesian approach. You
might mistake Jaynes for a crackpot because he's outside the
mainstream of statistics, but his approach is solidly grounded and
gives better answers.

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