Statistical Rethinking
Richard McElreath
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Lastly, Statistical Rethinking [3] really did change the way I think about statistics.
It's a rare thing to want to read a statistics textbook cover to cover but I did with this and enjoyed it.
Statistical rethinking by Richard McElreath also helped me to understand bayesian analysis and simulation -- possibly the best hands on bayesian analysis book for beginners
I had a real "click" moment with Statistic Rethinking (2nd Edition) too! I never really "got" Bayes' Theorem before (could use it to solve homework problems and stuff but never appreciated it) but somewhere in SR Chapter 2 the whole point of it really snapped into focus.
Statistical Rethinking is the first book that helped me make sense of statistical modeling (and probability as applied to modeling):
This is widely regarded as the most accessible intro textbook to Bayesian statistics.
"Statistical Rethinking" by Richard McElreath gets a lot of people excited about statistics again, after having suffered through the standard curriculum.
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