Recommendation request: Reasoning behind statistics

100 Views Asked by Bumbble Comm At 28 Mar 2026 - 10:25

It seems, to me at least, that most Statistics textbooks focus on the Statistical methods and techniques, or on the mathematics behind them.

Would you recommend me some textbooks (or any online source) that discuss the "logical" reasoning behind the techniques?

Thanks in advance!

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Bumbble Comm On 14 Sep 2013 - 2:41 BEST ANSWER

http://books.google.co.in/books/about/Statistics.html?id=mviJQgAACAAJ&redir_esc=y (Statistics by Freedman, Purves, Pisani)
http://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/0393310728 (How to Lie with Statitsics by Darrell Huff)
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106350.The_Lady_Tasting_Tea (The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century by David Salsburg)
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/168872.The_Cartoon_Guide_to_Statistics (The Cartoon Guide to Statistics by Larry Gonick, Woollcott Smith)