Statistical Computing for Scientists and Engineers
I can never shake off the feeling that statistics is somewhat lacking compared to the rest of &quot;fundamental&quot; sciences. To me it just lacks sort of brutal honesty that is present say in physics. And how come that the math often &quot;looks&quot; scary? To me this also seems intentional, like someone is trying to hide the lack of real content. Honestly, do we really need a whole field to run a curve through a cloud of points? Please, dispute me in comments below, I would really like to be wrong about this.<p>Edit: Let the down-voting begin