R. Jones wrote:
>Can anyone refer me to a good book on the foundations of statistics?
>I want to know of the limitations, assumptions, and philosophy
>behind statistics.
"Probability, Statistics, and Truth" by Richard von Mises is available
in paperback [ISBN 0-486-24214-5] and might be just what you seek.
>A discussion of how the quantum world may have
>different laws of statistics might be a plus.
The statistical portion of statistical mechanics is fairly simple, and
no different conceptually from other statistics.
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