Statistics

Statistics is the study of the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and organization of data.

How to Lie with Statistics
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R (Springer Texts in Statistics)
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide
Studies in the history of statistics and probability by E.S. PearsonBayesian Epistemology by Luc BovensLogical Foundations of Probability by Rudolf CarnapMeaning and Necessity by Rudolf CarnapPutting Logic in Its Place by David Christensen
Bayesian Epistemology
37 books — 1 voter

Search by Stefan WeitzTargeted by Brittany KaiserThe Art of Invisibility by Kevin D. MitnickThe Quants by Scott PattersonAI Superpowers by Kai-Fu Lee
Data (science) audiobooks
22 books — 1 voter
Algebraic Statistics by Seth SullivantMarkov Bases in Algebraic Statistics by AokiAn Introduction to Algebraic Statistics with Tensors by Cristiano BocciLectures on Algebraic Statistics by Mathias DrtonCausality by Judea Pearl
Algebraic Statistics
8 books — 2 voters


Mark Twain
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.
Mark Twain

Nenia Campbell
All statistics have outliers.
Nenia Campbell, Terrorscape

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