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Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook? ↗

The books people recommended

2026-09-06 · 109 points · 67 comments · 16 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.

  1. 3Statistics

    Statistics

    Freedman, Pisani and Purves

    3 here · 13 all-time · #504 overall

    Buy on Amazon3.1 out of 5, 3 ratings on Amazon
  2. 2Statistical Rethinking

    Statistical Rethinking

    Richard McElreath

    2 here · 19 all-time · #340 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 380 ratings on Amazon
  3. 1

    Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

    Harold Abelson

    1 here · 316 all-time · #2 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 742 ratings on Amazon
  4. 1

    The Art of Computer Programming

    Donald Knuth

    1 here · 127 all-time · #14 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 203 ratings on Amazon
  5. 1

    Black Swan

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    1 here · 110 all-time · #19 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 8,277 ratings on Amazon
  6. 1

    Fooled by Randomness

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    1 here · 81 all-time · #41 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 6,682 ratings on Amazon
  7. 1

    The Feynman Lectures on Physics

    Richard Feynman

    1 here · 59 all-time · #63 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 1,049 ratings on Amazon
  8. 1

    How to Measure Anything

    Douglas Hubbard

    1 here · 27 all-time · #214 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 595 ratings on Amazon
  9. 1The Signal and the Noise

    The Signal and the Noise

    Nate Silver

    1 here · 17 all-time · #372 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 3,922 ratings on Amazon
  10. 1All of Statistics

    All of Statistics

    Larry Wasserman

    1 here · 10 all-time · #664 overall

  11. 1How to Lie with Statistics

    How to Lie with Statistics

    Darrell Huff

    1 here · 9 all-time · #703 overall

  12. 1Think Bayes

    Think Bayes

    Allen B. Downey

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1602 overall

  13. 1Innumeracy

    Innumeracy

    John Allen Paulos

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1876 overall

  14. 1The Cartoon Guide to Statistics

    The Cartoon Guide to Statistics

    Gonick and Smith

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2156 overall

  15. 1Super Crunchers

    Super Crunchers

    Ian Ayres

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2286 overall

  16. 1Doing Bayesian Data Analysis

    Doing Bayesian Data Analysis

    John Kruschke

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2610 overall