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Review title: Really the Only Book
Product review: I had the good fortune to be trained by a physicist who, to my horror, left halfway through my bioinformatics PhD. (Imagine if Luke Skywalker were in the swamp, and Yoda told him he'd taken a job at the Broad.) Before he left, while I nearly collapsed in panic, he told me to get Bevington.I have stacks of statistics books that teach readers to plug things into formulas. This is not the way to learn or do statistics, and in anything but the most trivial of cases will lead to incorrect results. Bevington teaches the reader to think about what the data looks like, and specifically the error and uncertainty in the data. This is far more valuable than knowing the formula for a chi-square test or whatever other rubbish is generally taught in statistics classes.I would recommend this book as the first book that any scientist in training, in any field, read.
