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What a beautiful presentation!

Tangentially: I am really enjoying the book "All of Statistics" as a reference for better understanding things like histograms, kernel density functions, etc, and their parameters.

https://www.amazon.com/All-Statistics-Statistical-Inference-...

⬐ emblaegh

Aren't you refererring to "All of non-parametric statistics"? https://www.amazon.com/All-Nonparametric-Statistics-Springer... Either way I can't recommend these books enough, really opened my eyes to the inner workings of statistics in a rigorous yet accessible way.

⬐ lukego

Just ordered that one too :-).

I am actually most interested non-parametric statistics, especially to "reformulate" as many statistical tests as possible using a small number of robust primitives (like the bootstrap.) More pointers in that direction would be very welcome :-)

Tangent to a tangent: The other most enjoyable stats book I have found is "Statistical Modeling: A Fresh Approach" http://www.mosaic-web.org/go/StatisticalModeling/

First 200 pages

https://www.amazon.com/All-Statistics-Statistical-Inference-...

⬐ snoman

Sassy, but I'll allow it.

A few days ago I found this gem of a book that I think many here would find interesting (if you don't already know it) : http://www.amazon.com/All-Statistics-Statistical-Inference-S...

http://www.amazon.com/All-Statistics-Statistical-Inference-S...

here is a course i have been working through that describes some learning algorithms: http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.867/lectures.html i also like this book: http://www.amazon.com/All-Statistics-Statistical-Inference-S...

⬐ jacquesm

Learning algorithms and statistical inference do not in any way supersede or invalidate the scientific method, they are products of the scientific method.

The are very interesting though, that's for sure.

⬐ hc

the products of a thing often supersede it.

in this case, the development of inference is certainly a consequence of the development of the scientific method. but the validity of the latter is a mathematical consequence of the validity of the former. bayesian inference is more fundamental.

another good book that informs my personal views on this matter: http://www.amazon.com/Probability-Theory-Logic-Science-Vol/d...