Dear morphmetters,
A few of you may remember that way back in December 2009 I began
to write a book, "Numbers and Reasons," based on my teaching notes since
1986 across all of statistics (not just morphometrics). Things have a
way of taking more time than you expect, and it wasn't until the 28th of
last month that the book, now entitled "Measuring and Reasoning:
Numerical Inference in the Sciences," was finally published by Cambridge
University Press. And just today Amazon.com finally lists it as "in
stock" in the US (and complains they have only 4 copies left -- perhaps
that was out of 5?). For a book of nearly 600 pages Cambridge priced it
quite attractively, at less than 68 dollars, 59 euros, or 45.01 pounds.
It has a gorgeous color cover with a picture of what must be construed
as a German statistician circa 1818.
Feel free to buy or borrow a copy and then start arguing with
me about the role of numerical reasoning in anthropology, evolutionary
biology, medical imaging, or any of the other sciences
that articulate with this morphometric community of ours.
Fred Bookstein
