No Bullshit Guide to Statistics prerelease

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After seven years in the works, I’m happy to report that the No Bullshit Guide to Statistics is finally done and available as a digital download from Gumroad: gum.co/noBSstats. The book ended up being 1100 pages long and so I had to split it into two parts: Part 1 covers prerequisites (DATA and PROB), then Part 2 covers statistical inference topics: classical (frequentist) statistics, linear models, and Bayesian statistics.

The prerelease price is US\$39, which is a 42% discount for all the true fans who read the company blog post. See below for the table of contents, links to preview PDFs, and an explanation about why the book took so long to ship.

TL;DR: Ivan ventures into the statistics mountains, faces many uphills, but is not a quitter, so comes out alive, bringing back a condensed guide to statistical inference topics (Part 2; 656 pages) and prerequisites (Part 1; 433 pages). See trailer video here:

 

 

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No Bullshit Guide to Linear Algebra v2.2 update

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I’m happy to announce the No Bullshit Guide to Linear Algebra v2.2 is out. This update contains two years’ worth of text improvements based on readers’ feedback.

In this blog post I’ll summarize the changes to the book and provide some more context about why these changes were needed.  I’ve included links to PDF excerpts of all the new sections[1,2,3,4] and a detailed red-blue diff that shows all edits.

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No Bullshit Guide to Math & Physics v5.4 update

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I’m happy to announce the No Bullshit Guide to Math & Physics version 5.4 has been released. This update contains two years’ worth of text improvements based on readers’ feedback and suggestions. The main focus of the edits was the math fundamentals chapter, making it easier to follow for beginners. The other big news is that the book is now available in .epub and .mobi formats.

In this blog post I’ll give an overview of the changes to the book with additional comments about the importance of each change. I’ve included links to PDF excerpts of all the new sections[1,2,3,4,5,6] as well as a detailed red-blue diff that shows all edits. All this with the goal to make the PDFs linked to from this blog post to contain a the complete “patch” information for readers who have an older version of the book.

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