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Re:All of Statistics, by Larry Wassserman (2013) [pdf] by mathheaven on Monday May 16, 2016 @05:16AM (#11705160)
Brian Blais's free book doesn't contain any reference to the Poisson Distribution.

For ML Hastie and Tibshirani ISLR is very good but is more for applications of machine learning: classification, regression and prediction.

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Re:All of Statistics, by Larry Wassserman (2013) [pdf] by stdbrouw on Monday May 16, 2016 @06:31AM (#11705411)
The Poisson distribution is just a limiting case of the binomial distribution and not needed to explain any of the concepts that drive statistical inference, so its absence from an introductory text is hardly something to fuss about.
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