This is a book of letters. It contains a 20 year correspondence (1949-1969) between Helene Haff, an American freelance writer and Marks & Co., a book store on 84, Charing Cross Road at London. The author’s love for books and especially out-of-print books makes her respond to an ad placed by Marks & Co in a literary magazine. Her first letter requesting a set of books gets a prompt response from the book store and that’s how a 20 year correspondence starts.

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It was bootstrapping that made me start off on my statistics journey years ago. I have very fond memories of the days when I could understand simple things in statistics without resorting to complicating looking formulae. A few lines of code were all that was needed. Slowly I became more curious about many things in statistics and that’s how my love affair with stats began. There are two bibles that any newbie to bootstrap should go over; one by Efron & Tibshirani and the other by Davison & Hinkley.

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