I would use it as an additional text, rather than a replacement. It is a wonderful book.
Art Peter Flom wrote: > Statistics as principled argument, by Abelson. > > This is not so much a book of how to do statistics (that would be for a > stats class) but a book about how to think about statistics, what they > mean, and so on. > > It's a book I think every social scientist should read, and if you get > some people to read it for your class, so much the better > > Peter > > Peter L. Flom, PhD > Assistant Director, Statistics and Data Analysis Core > Center for Drug Use and HIV Research > National Development and Research Institutes > 71 W. 23rd St > www.peterflom.com > New York, NY 10010 > (212) 845-4485 (voice) > (917) 438-0894 (fax) > > > > > . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
