MR. UDNY YULE'S “Introduction” was the first book on statistics that came into my hands. This was about 1916. I liked it then and learned a lot from it. I like it even more now in its eleventh ...

The book is entertaining yet thorough enough to enlighten readers about the importance of random sampling, how to calculate standard deviations, and the true meaning of a p-value.

OF all the works a man may set himself to write, the most difficult must surely be an elementary text-book on statistics. The writer of a text-book on almost any scientific subject has to face the ...