{"id":2260,"date":"2025-09-10T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2025-09-16T15:18:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T22:18:26","slug":"gary-smith-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/2025\/09\/10\/gary-smith-67\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Smith &#8217;67"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gary Smith \u201967 published his 20th book, Exercises and Solutions in Probability and Statistics: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.garysmithn.com\/books\/statistics-exercises\">https:\/\/www.garysmithn.com\/books\/statistics-exercises<\/a>. Two reviews:<br><br>\u201cThe problems in this book are wonderful:&nbsp; they&#8217;re clear, they test important concepts in statistics, and they require insight without being tricky.\u201d \u2014 Andrew Gelman, Professor of Statistics and Political Science,&nbsp; Columbia University, Author of Active Statistics: Stories, Games, Problems<br><br>\u201cWe draw on Smith\u2019s collection extensively in our \u201cCalling Bullshit\u201d course on data reasoning. Perhaps I should not disclose the source of my exam questions \u2014 but if any of my students choose to seek an advantage by reading Smith\u2019s book from cover to cover, they\u2019ll learn more by doing so than I could hope to teach them in a quarter.\u201d \u2014 Carl T. Bergstrom, Professor of Biology, University of Washington, Author of Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Smith \u201967 published his 20th book, Exercises and Solutions in Probability and Statistics: https:\/\/www.garysmithn.com\/books\/statistics-exercises. Two reviews: \u201cThe problems in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,82,27],"class_list":["post-2260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-78","category-careers","category-mathematics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions\/2263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}