Shasha, Dennis; Wilson, Manda Statistics is easy! 2nd edition. (English) Zbl 1457.62010 Synthesis Lectures on Mathematics and Statistics 8. San Rafael, CA: Morgan & Claypool Publishers (ISBN 978-1-68173-237-4/hbk; 978-1-60845-570-6/pbk; 978-1-60845-571-3/ebook). 174 p. (2010). Publisher’s description: Statistics is the activity of inferring results about a population given a sample. Historically, statistics books assume an underlying distribution to the data (typically, the normal distribution) and derive results under that assumption. Unfortunately, in real life, one cannot normally be sure of the underlying distribution. For that reason, this book presents a distribution-independent approach to statistics based on a simple computational counting idea called resampling. This book explains the basic concepts of resampling, then system atically presents the standard statistical measures along with programs (in the language Python) to calculate them using resampling, and finally illustrates the use of the measures and programs in a case study. The text uses junior high school algebra and many examples to explain the concepts. The ideal reader has mastered at least elementary mathematics, likes to think procedurally, and is comfortable with computers. Cited in 1 Review MSC: 62-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to statistics 62A01 Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics 62E15 Exact distribution theory in statistics 62D05 Sampling theory, sample surveys 62-08 Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics 97K70 Foundations and methodology of statistics (educational aspects) 00A06 Mathematics for nonmathematicians (engineering, social sciences, etc.) Keywords:basic concepts of resampling; standard statistical measures Software:Python PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{D. Shasha} and \textit{M. Wilson}, Statistics is easy!. 2nd edition. San Rafael, CA: Morgan \& Claypool Publishers (2010; Zbl 1457.62010) Full Text: DOI