Statistical Computing for Scientists and Engineers
I can never shake off the feeling that statistics is somewhat lacking compared to the rest of "fundamental" sciences. To me it just lacks sort of brutal honesty that is present say in physics. And how come that the math often "looks" 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