Statistics
Freedman, Pisani and Purves
13 people recommended it in 7 threads, 2018–2026.
3 of those were in the last year.
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It's chock full of actual examples from real research and statistics, complete with citations. I just worked through some problem sets today, analyzing some twin studies establishing the link between smoking and cancer.
Statistics by Freedman, Pisani and Purves. Don't know if I got better but loved the real world examples and cartoons. Does not have too many pre-requisites.
It's really good for intuition, but because it doesn't use standard notation I think it might have done a disservice to students who were going to go on to learn more.
It took me a year to fully read it but the exercises are fun, real world examples of applying statistical methods.
All exercises use real data as cases, I learned a lot more from them!
Read it years ago but still remains the most lucid book ive ever read.
Yes, the intuition was key for me. So many of the problems could be solved with the simple box model.
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