My pandemic project in 2020 was to finally read through the used copy I bought a decade ago. I agree it was really useful at building foundational intuitions. And that it doesn't use professional jargon which sometimes makes Stats Wikipedia's "death by integrals" approach a dense barrier to entry.
For example, the book uses "the box model" all over the book but is not used anywhere else, and every else uses the phrase "i.i.d" which is not used in the book.
Still, it's been really useful at my job in reasoning about timeseries data from Prometheus, especially in canary analysis. Far more useful than the whirlwind tour of distributions my 1 semester "Statistics for Engineers" course in college undertook.
For example, the book uses "the box model" all over the book but is not used anywhere else, and every else uses the phrase "i.i.d" which is not used in the book.
Still, it's been really useful at my job in reasoning about timeseries data from Prometheus, especially in canary analysis. Far more useful than the whirlwind tour of distributions my 1 semester "Statistics for Engineers" course in college undertook.