Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, UCSB, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America.
PLoS Comput Biol. 2019 Jan 24;15(1):e1006562. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006562. eCollection 2019 Jan.
Statistical books can provide deep insights into statistics and software. There are, however, many resources available to the practitioner. Book reviews have the capacity to function as a critical mechanism for the learner to assess the merits of engaging in part, in full, or at all with a book. The "ten simple rules" format, pioneered in computational biology, was applied here to writing effective book reviews for statistics because of the wide breadth of offerings in this domain, including topical introductions, computational solutions, and theory. Learning by doing is a popular paradigm in statistics and computation, but there is still a niche for books in the pedagogy of self-taught and instruction-based learning. Primarily, these rules ensure that book reviews function as a form of short syntheses to inform and guide readers in deciding to use a specific book relative to other options for resolving statistical challenges.
统计书籍可以提供对统计学和软件的深入了解。然而，从业者有许多资源可供选择。书评有能力作为学习者评估参与部分、全部或完全参与一本书的优点的关键机制。由于这个领域提供了广泛的内容，包括主题介绍、计算解决方案和理论，“十个简单规则”格式首先在计算生物学中得到应用，这里将其应用于撰写统计学的有效书评，因为它包括主题介绍、计算解决方案和理论。在统计学和计算中，通过实践学习是一种流行的范式，但在自学和基于指导的学习的教育学中，书籍仍然有一席之地。这些规则主要确保书评作为一种简短的综合形式，为读者提供信息并指导他们决定使用特定的书籍，而不是其他解决统计挑战的选择。
