Statistics, 4th ed. 2007. by David Freedman et al.

By Xah Lee. Date: 2025-10-10.

2023-05-01

Statistics, 4th ed. 2007. by David Freedman et al.

Statistics, 4th Edition. 2007. by David Freedman, Robert Pisani, Roger Purves. Buy at amazon

worst book.
verbose, and written as if you are children, and injects social justice warrior gang stuff like court cases about sjw racism.
does not explain the mathematical gist.

David A. Freedman died in 2008, at age 70.

his book on statistics is apparently famous, and is first published in 1978.

later on, especially when he is old, the book probably are just edited into shit by corporations, as most text books are.

Table of contents

PART I. DESIGNS OF EXPERIMENTS
Chapter 1. Controlled Experiments
Chapter 2. Observational Studies

PART II. DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
Chapter 3. The Histogram
Chapter 4. The Average Standard Deviation
Chapter 5. The Normal Approximation for Data
Chapter 6. Measurement Error
Chapter 7. Plotting Points and Lines

PART III. CORRELATION AND REGRESSION
Chapter 8. Correlation
Chapter 9. More about Correlation
Chapter 10. Regression
Chapter 11. The R.M.S. Error for Regression
Chapter 12. The Regression Line

PART IV. PROBABILITY
Chapter 13. What Are the Chances
Chapter 14. More about Chance
Chapter 15. The Binomial Formula

PAR IV. CHANCE VARIABILITY
Chapter 16. The Law of Averages
Chapter 17. The Expected Value and Standard Error
Chapter 18. The Normal Approximation for Probablity

PART VI. SAMPLING
Chapter 19. Sample Surveys
Chapter 20. Chance Errors in Sampling
Chapter 21. The Accuracy of Percentages
Chapter 22. Measuring Employment and Significance Unemployment
Chapter 23. The Accuracy of Averages
PART VII. CHANCE MODELS
Chapter 24. Model for Measurement Error
Chapter 25. Chance Models in Genetics

PART VIII. TESTS OF SIGNIFICANCE
Chapter 26. Tests of Significance
Chapter 27 More Tests for Averages
Chapter 28. The Chi-Square Test
Chapter 29. A Closer Look at Tests of Significance