Ask HN: What are your favorite statistics and probability textbooks? ↗
The books people recommended
2018-07-06 · 452 points · 85 comments · 28 books named by at least one person here and at least 3 people overall. The number on the left is how many people named it in this thread.
- 5Probability Theory
- 5Real Analysis
- 5Statistical Inference
- 4All of Statistics
- 3

- 3Statistical Rethinking
- 3Probability
- 3Introduction to Probability
- 2Statistics
- 2How to Lie with Statistics
- 2Stochastic Processes
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- 1The Book of Why
- 1Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
- 1Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
- 1Introduction to Statistical Learning
Introduction to Statistical Learning
Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani
1 here · 12 all-time · #534 overall
- 1Against the Gods
- 1Probabilistic Robotics
- 1The Lady Tasting Tea
- 1Bayesian Data Analysis
- 1Causality
- 1Grammar of Graphics
- 1Intuitive Biostatistics
- 1The Cartoon Guide to Statistics
- 1Introduction to Probability Theory
- 1Mathematical Analysis