I recently finished reading 'Curveball: Baseball, Statistics, and the Role
of Chance in the Game' by Albert and Bennett. A truly remarkable book. If
you are, as I am, into quantitative analysis, and lean towards empirics
first, then you will enjoy the book. It introduces a number of really
useful statistical concepts truly in passing. Readers will hopefully get
'it' without feeling being spoon-fed. In fact, there is virtually no algebra
in the entire book. Most analysis is done by simulation (which I really dig)
-- a reasonable model is hypothesized, data is generated by simulation
according to the hypothesize model (and parameters), and if not apparent
conflict is seen between the originally observed and the generated data, the
model is retained. This book could be used as the basis for a truly neat
statistics / data analysis course.
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