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Best introductory statistics book to develop intuitive grasp of topic?
What's a good introductory statistics book? I've found a few but they suffer from one of two faults:
* One type glosses over everything and just spits out a bunch of formulas that you are supposed to apply. There's no thought given to explaining the conceptual understanding...such as WHY confidence intervals vary as the square root of sample size.
* Another type is made for theoretical math majors and is based on extremely rigorous proofs of arcane details which I'm not interested in.
Is there a good book that strikes a balance and teaches me an intuitive grasp of statistics? I'm already very familiar with probability.
- macmac 18y agoIntroduction to Statistical Thought is nice: http://www.stat.duke.edu/~michael/print.pdf http://www.stat.duke.edu/~michael/print.pdf Also I think below links are all quite interesting: http://yudkowsky.net/bayes/bayes.html http://yudkowsky.net/bayes/bayes.html http://www.stats202.com/ http://www.stats202.com/
- akd 18y agothanks! I will check these out.