Reading List

A reading list? Yes, I like to look forward to what I’m going to read in the future. So, I have both a prospective reading list, as well as a retrospective reading list with all the books I enjoyed enough to write about on my blog.

Prospective Reading List

• Ian Ayres Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
• Thomas Frank What’s the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
• Richard Wilkinson en Kate Pickett: The Spirit Level.Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do better.
• Bastiat: That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen: The Unintended Consequences of Government Spending
• Andrew Gelman (Editor), Jeronimo Cortina (Editor): Quantitative Models And Methods: A Tour of the Social Sciences
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb:The Black Swan: The impact of the highly improbable
• Dan Gardner: Risk: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn’t – and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger
• Marten Scheffer: Critical Transitions in Nature and Society:
• John Harris (editor)The Future of Human Reproduction: Ethics, Choice, and Regulation (Issues in Biomedical Ethics)
• John Fox A Mathematical Primer for Social Statistics
• John FoxRegression Diagnostics: An Introduction

Retrospective Reading List

• Te Grotenhuis and Van der Weegen (2009)Statistical Tools
• Cohen (2005)The Triumph of Numbers. How Counting Shaped Modern Life
• Karlen (1995) Man and Microbes
• Van Kesteren (2006) Buiten zichzelf
• Mirowsky & Ross (2003) Education, Social Status, and Health
• Brijs (2008) The Angel Maker
• Dalgaard (2002) Introductory Statistics with R
• Gelman & Hill (2007) Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models”
• Fox (2002) An R and S-PLUS Companion to Applied Regression
• Pinheiro, Bates (2000) Mixed Effects Models in S and S-PLUS
• Manfred te Grotenhuis, Theo van der Weegen (2008) Statistiek als Hulpmiddel

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