Statistics Dept. Nat. Bk. Belgium wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There is a book by Tukey
> exploratory data analysis
> very good but maybe not suitable for a 2000 research student
A /much/ more readable overview is given in
Data Analysis and Regression: A Second Course in Statistics
Frederick Mosteller, John W. Tukey (Contributor)
A search for Tukey at www.amazon.com (or your uni library) will
also find several books by David C. Hoaglin et al expanding on
the topic.
Peter
Marginally related is the paper Greater and Lesser Statistics at
http://www.ampl.com/who/jmc/pub.html
Which asks what should the statistics community by trying to
achieve.
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