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Re:Introduction to Statistics using NumPy by melling on Saturday September 09, 2017 @12:03PM (#15207668)
Anyone have any recommendations on where to start? In particular, I’ve been looking for a good book on probability.
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Re:Introduction to Statistics using NumPy by maroonblazer on Saturday September 09, 2017 @12:08PM (#15207693)
I like Norvig's Jupyter notebook on Probability using Python.

http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Probabili...

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Re:Introduction to Statistics using NumPy by RA_Fisher on Saturday September 09, 2017 @01:57PM (#15208248)
I recommend Think Stats by Allen Downey http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/
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Re:Introduction to Statistics using NumPy by dragandj on Saturday September 09, 2017 @12:07PM (#15207681)
William Bolstad - Introduction to Bayesian Statistics

Or E.T. Jaynes - Probability Theory, The Logic of Science (but this one is much more detailed and has lots of philosophy)

Or Ian Hacking - An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic (this is the light approach written for philosophy students)

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Re:Introduction to Statistics using NumPy by joshvm on Saturday September 09, 2017 @12:07PM (#15207680)
Jaynes is the usual 'standard' probability text, and it's well written and not too dry. It's mathsy though.
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