TY - JOUR
T1 - Book Review: Philosophies, Puzzles and Paradoxes: A Statistician's Search for Truth, by Yudi Pawitan and Youngjo Lee. CRC Press. 2024. xxvii+ 323 pp., ISBN 978-1-032-37739-1
AU - Kumar, Kuldeep
PY - 2026/1/6
Y1 - 2026/1/6
N2 - Philosophies, Puzzles and Paradoxes: A Statistician Search for Truth explores the three major approaches to statistical thinking—Bayesian, Frequentist, and Likelihood—through a series of engaging puzzles and paradoxes. The book offers a distinctive perspective for statisticians and academicians interested in the philosophical foundations underlying probability and statistical concepts.
AB - Philosophies, Puzzles and Paradoxes: A Statistician Search for Truth explores the three major approaches to statistical thinking—Bayesian, Frequentist, and Likelihood—through a series of engaging puzzles and paradoxes. The book offers a distinctive perspective for statisticians and academicians interested in the philosophical foundations underlying probability and statistical concepts.
U2 - 10.1093/jrsssa/qnaf204
DO - 10.1093/jrsssa/qnaf204
M3 - Book/Film/Article review
SN - 0964-1998
SP - 1
EP - 1
JO - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society
JF - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society
ER -