Statistics and Analysis of Scientific Data (Second Edition).

i I "The Gaussian distribution can be considered as a special case of the binomial, when the number of tries is sufficiently large." i I "This clearly does not mean that the Poisson distribution has no variance - in that case, it would not be a random variable! It does not account for the discrete nature of these data in the linear regression chapter; or make sense of the three-page derivation of the Gaussian distribution from a Taylor expansion of the Binomial pmf obtained by differentiating in the integer argument. Graph A close friend pointed out this (currently free access) Springer book by physicist Massimiliano Bonamente for its use of the unusual Monte Carlo Markov chain rendering of MCMC. [Extracted from the article]