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Author

Dr. Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo

Published

April 22, 2025

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Statistical Thinking for the 21st Century πŸ’―

By Russell Poldrack

What is this?

Excerpt from site: The goal of this book is to the tell the story of statistics as it is used today by researchers around the world. It’s a different story than the one told in most introductory statistics books, which focus on teaching how to use a set of tools to acheive very specific goals. This book focuses on understanding the basic ideas of statistical thinking β€” a systematic way of thinking about how we describe the world and make decisions and predictions, all in the context of the inherent uncertainty that exists in the real world. It also brings to bear current methods that have only become feasible in light of the amazing increases in computational power that have happened in the last few decades. Analyses that would have taken years in the 1950’s can now be completed in a few seconds on a standard laptop computer, and this power unleashes the ability to use computer simulation to ask questions in new and powerful ways.

  1. Link to site here: https://statsthinking21.org/
  2. Link to core text here: https://statsthinking21.github.io/statsthinking21-core-site/
  3. Link to R repo here: https://github.com/statsthinking21/statsthinking21-R
  4. Link to Python repo here (under work now): https://github.com/statsthinking21/statsthinking21-python
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