My recent manga binge...

I've been on a manga kick. Don't know why. It just happened.

It started off simply enough. I read a few issues of Fruits Basket, Vol. 1. Then I read Hana-Kimi, Volume 1: For You In Full Blossom. (I only made it through one of those. Just didn't like it that much.)

Then I devoured all four books for Miki Falls, starting with Miki Falls: Spring.

Now I just finished reading The Manga Guide to Statistics by Shin Takahashi.

It's a basic text (data types, standard score and standard deviation, probability, correlations, and chi-squares). It actually explains things in a relatively straight-forward manner and includes a cheesy romance story line. There's not a lot of exercises, so if I were learning the concepts for the first time, it would need supplemental information. But as a basic primer, I'm impressed. It was actually kind of fun to have a romance bud in between equations and hypothesis testing! I wonder how it would translate to hierarchical modeling... hmmm...

So that's a little of where I've been hiding. We all know I stink at blogging now. More sooner or later!