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What’s a good way of learning statistics for someone who is more into pure mathematics? I always avoided stats as much as possible because I found the classes
by jl6 9y ago
What’s a good way of learning statistics for someone who is more into pure mathematics?
I always avoided stats as much as possible because I found the classes extremely un-rigorous. I couldn’t get to grips with what the notation really meant, and there seemed to be a lot of hand waving on the way to results.
I’m not doubting that stats is rigorous, just my exposure to it so far hasn’t been.
- imh 9y agoMy recommendation depends on what you'd like to do with it/what problems you are trying to solve. Huge field and all. Whatcha looking for? One resource I've started recommending to people is this little book http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/PRIMER/ http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/PRIMER/ It's not going to teach you a lot of the practical tools, but there's a weird feature of statistics that the answers to most questions aren't just functions of the data. They're functions of how the data was gathered and what assumptions are fair to make too. So I've started to point people to this first, and only after that to what's usually stats 1. Once you finish that little book, any intro to mathematical statistics should suffice, but is probably overkill on the practical side. Hence my original question.