The Most Comprehensive Review of Comic Books Teaching Statistics

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Abstraction: Comparative review of four comic-format statistics introduction books

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Four books reviewed: The Cartoon Guide to Statistics (5/5), The Manga Guide to Statistics (4/5), The Cartoon Introduction to Statistics (2/5), Introducing Statistics: A Graphic Guide (1/5)
The Cartoon Guide to Statistics (Gonick & Smith, 1993) is rated best: witty, comprehensive, covers confidence intervals, regression, resampling, with mathematical notation but still accessible
The Manga Guide to Statistics is heavy on manga storyline but covers basic hypothesis testing; strong on artwork for manga fans
The Cartoon Introduction to Statistics (2013) is overly focused on normal sampling distributions and fails to mention Bayesian statistics
Introducing Statistics: A Graphic Guide contains numerous factual errors and incoherent explanations; strongly not recommended
All four books are focused on frequentist statistics; Bayesian perspective barely mentioned

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