【转】Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All

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I’ve read a lot of books on the subject, but here’s a few that you can look for on your favorite corporate book pusher site:

• Statistics; by Freedman, Pisani, Purves, and Adhikari. Norton publishers.
• Introductory Statistics with R; by Dalgaard. Springer publishers.
• Statistical Computing: An Introduction to Data Analysis using S-Plus; by Crawley. Wiley publishers.
• Statistical Process Control; by Grant, Leavenworth. McGraw-Hill publishers.
• Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences; by Agresti, Finlay. Prentice-Hall publishers.
• Methods of Social Research; by Baily. Free Press publishers.
• Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS; by Venables, Ripley. Springer publishers.

There’s also several books on statistics and the software development process which you can apply to your work directly. Finally, you should check out the R Project for the programming language used in this article. It is a great language for this, with some of the best plotting abilities in the world. Learning to use R will help you also learn statistics better.

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