Description: Making Statistics Work presents a synthesis of information theory and Bayesian inference that provides a consistent, powerful, and flexible framework for data inference, allowing for new approaches to many of the unresolved questions of statistics.
Brief description: Duncan Foley is Leo Model professor of economics at the New School for Social Research and external professor of the Santa Fe Institute. He is author of Unholy Trinity: Labor, Capital and Land in the New Economy(2003), and Adam's Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology (2006).
Review Quotes: Making Statistics Work introduces a robust framework that brings together information theory and Bayesian inference through entropy-maximizing priors. Offering both readability and rigor, this book is a refreshing alternative to the conventional statistical education.--Jangho Yang, University of Waterloo