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My 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 st
by imh 9y ago
My 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.