All of Nonparametric Statistics

Name: All of Nonparametric Statistics
ISBN: 0387251456

by Larry Wasserman · first published 2007

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daikonraidish · Jul 7, 2018 · Recommends

All of statistics by wasserman, and then all of nonparametric statistics. Since you’re also interested in the philosophy side of things, definitely suggest Judea pearl too!
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caffeine · Oct 25, 2009 · Recommends

…and Tibshirani which you already have, Pattern Recognition by Duda Hart and Stork, and PRML by Chris Bishop (though I found it boring - too many unmotivated equations). All of Statistics and especially All of Nonparametric Statistics by Wasserman are both excellent books which will fairly rapidly get you introduced to large swaths of statistical models. Papoulis (1993) is quite a good reference on statistics in general, and Joy &…
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lukego · Dec 20, 2017 · Critical

…textbook. You only need a bit of algebra to make sense of it. That book exudes the feeling that the author wants to get through all this theory as quickly as possible to move onto other exciting things. (_All of Nonparametric Statistics_ by the same author is actually less approachable and shouldn't be taken as a simplified "the good bits" subset.) The stats book that I have had the most value out of is _Statistical Modeling: A Fresh…
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