{"id":1310,"date":"2018-02-25T23:58:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T23:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.briang.org\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2018-02-25T23:58:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T23:58:31","slug":"these-are-the-best-books-for-learning-modern-statistics-and-theyre-all-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.briang.org\/?p=1310","title":{"rendered":"These are the best books for learning modern statistics\u2014and they\u2019re all free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1206229\/this-is-the-best-book-for-learning-modern-statistics-its-free\/\"><strong>These are the best books for learning modern statistics\u2014and they\u2019re all free<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People who have taken intro statistics courses might recognize terms like \u201cnormal distribution,\u201d \u201ct-distribution,\u201d and \u201cleast squares regression.\u201d 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\u2019t be learning this stuff anymore\u2014or, at least, it shouldn\u2019t be the first thing we learn. There are better options.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The books in question are<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www-bcf.usc.edu\/~gareth\/ISL\/ISLR%20Seventh%20Printing.pdf\">An Introduction to Statistical Learning, 7ed<\/a> [pdf]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.stanford.edu\/~hastie\/ElemStatLearn\/printings\/ESLII_print12.pdf\">The Elements of Statistical Learning<\/a> [pdf]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the best books for learning modern statistics\u2014and they\u2019re all free People who have taken intro statistics courses might recognize terms like \u201cnormal distribution,\u201d \u201ct-distribution,\u201d and \u201cleast squares regression.\u201d 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\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[85,84,429,101],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-free","tag-rlang","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.briang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.briang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.briang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.briang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.briang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.briang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1312,"href":"https:\/\/blog.briang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions\/1312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.briang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.briang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.briang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}