These are the best books for learning modern statistics—and they’re all free
These are the best books for learning modern statistics—and they’re all free
People who have taken intro statistics courses might recognize terms like “normal distribution,” “t-distribution,” and “least squares regression.” We learn about them, in large part, because these were convenient things to calculate with the tools available in the early 20th century. We shouldn’t be learning this stuff anymore—or, at least, it shouldn’t be the first thing we learn. There are better options.
The books in question are