The statistical sleuth
by Fred L. Ramsey, Fred Ramsey, Daniel W. Schafer · first published 1996
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xxvi, 742 p. : 25 cm. +
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…broad overview of statistical stuff -- what's a t test, a sampling distribution, a regression, anova, variance, glm family, etc, I'd recommend this unfortunately very expensive book: http://www.amazon.com/Statistical-Sleuth-Course-Methods-Anal... It's very applied with subject oriented chapters, eg what is regression? What about regression where my dep var is counts? A probability? With correlations in the design matrix?…
on “Learn Python The Hard Way Now For Sale” ↗A good introductory book is this one: "The Statistical Sleuth. A Course in Methods of Data Analysis" (3rd Edition) by Fred Ramsey and Daniel Schafer <http://www.statisticalsleuth.com/>. Another good book at a more advanced level is this one: "Regression and Other…
on “Introduction to Modern Statistics” ↗basic level, very approachable, filled with case studies (and with R code to run them easily found), but stupidly expensive: _statistical sleuth_ by ramsey (but, you know, pdfs can be found on the internets) intermediate level, covers some blocking IIRC: _Statistics for Experimenters_ by Box et al advanced: I thought quite good, but classmates…
on “Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python” ↗