Comments on: Oct 14th (Day 2): Statistics is a philosophy class

By: Statistics should be the foundation of mathematics education « Bumblebee Labs Blog

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:37:50 +0000

[...] as an end goal. I’ve been a heavy advocate for this ever since I wrote my post about how statistics is a philosophy subject. 0 people like this [...]

By: Jill

Jill — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:40:20 +0000

A bit late, but… “The Mismeasure of Man” by Stephen Jay Gould is a very illuminating read about the misuse of statistics.

By: Alan Crowe

Alan Crowe — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:39:08 +0000

I think you would love E.T.Jaynes’ book Probability Theory: The Logic of Science. On the controversy between Frequentists and Bayesians, Jaynes take a 100% Bayesian view and takes up the challenge of fully explaining the philosophy behind his position.

By: nina

nina — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:36:11 +0000

Nice blog since I’m also one interested in philosophy and statistics
Can you recommend any nice literature on statistics? Most are focusing too much
on methods.