Statistics Book Recommendations

Users discuss and recommend various statistics textbooks, courses, and resources for self-learning, refreshing knowledge, or understanding theoretical papers, especially for CS and scientific backgrounds.

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master_yoda_1 Jan 1, 2021 View on HN

Bda is more advanced version of this book. Stats rethinking is also good and one can start from scratch as it has more code and less maths.

greenkiweez Oct 2, 2022 View on HN

Studying CS a while ago, we had a very practical statistics and now I'm struggling to understand more theoretical proof-based papers like this one. Is there a good statistics/probability book out there to brush up on my statistics and understand papers like this better?

swaroop Aug 6, 2009 View on HN

Have you checked out Head First Statistics by O'Reilly?

credit_guy Dec 31, 2020 View on HN

Try "Computer Age Statistical Inference" by Efron and Hastie.https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/CASI_files/PDF/casi.pdf

jfarmer Feb 20, 2009 View on HN

Statistics is statistics -- just get a good introductory statistics textbook. MIT's OpenCourseWare is probably a good start, maybe this: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-443Fall2003/CourseH...

Osmium Apr 30, 2015 View on HN

Is there a canonical statistics textbook to recommend to the professional scientist?

pmbouman Feb 12, 2009 View on HN

Try "The Elements of Statistical Learning" by Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman. Lots of math but an outstanding introduction.

r4um Dec 29, 2021 View on HN

I highly recommend The Art of Statistics.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43722897-the-art-of-stat...

pyyxbkshed Sep 28, 2025 View on HN

What is a book / course on statistics that I can go through before this so that I can understand this?

connectsnk Nov 14, 2022 View on HN

Which book can you recommend for learning stats