Free Online Resources for Learning About Statistics
Books
Below are some excellent books available for free download.
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All of Statistics by Larry Wasserman
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Bayesian Data Analysis by Andrew Gelman et al.
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Computer Age Statistical Inference by Bradley Efron et al.
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Elements of Statistical Learning by Trevor Hastie et al.
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Think Stats and Think Bayes both by Allen B. Downey
Online Classes
- MIT OCW 18.05 lecture notes
Youtube Channels
These channels explain complex statistical concepts very clearly.
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Brian Caffo. Here is a free book he used in his Coursera class on statistical inference.
The Royal Statistics Society has lectures from luminaries in statistics. Some are accessible to novices like me.
R Language Resources
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The tidyverse is a curated (“opinionated”) set of R packages for data science.
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Online version of R for Data Science by Hadley Wickham
Blogs
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538 Nate Silver
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Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science Andrew Gelman