Wow. Statistics can be fun.

Posted on September 16th, 2006 by Sacha Chua

I have a new favorite statistics textbook. Not that I had one before. Who knew that a statistics textbook could have a sense of humor? Discovering Statistics Using SPSS is infinitely cool. It's funny, it's solid, it's detailed, it's good. Get it if you ever need to do anything with statistics. Heck, get it even if you just want to get over a fear of statistics.

Props to Mark Chignell, my research supervisor and the professor teaching the statistics course I'm taking this term. He's hilarious, too. This is going to be such a great term...

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