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comment by Maxwell Peterson (maxwell-peterson) · 2021-08-26T20:24:07.754Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I am 3 chapters into Gelman's Bayesian Data Analysis. The text is good (and available free & legitimately from that link), but where this book really shines for me so far are the problems. They are excellent, and have you using a programming languge of your choice to do computational statistics by chapter 2. I already have ideas on ways I can use the concepts at work. I had previously read through Jaynes's Probability Theory: The Logic of Science, and I love it and it changed the way I think, but for practical value, Bayesian Data Analysis wins.

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comment by Yoav Ravid · 2021-08-26T11:46:25.934Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

See The Best Textbooks on Every Subject [LW · GW]. Also this is more fitting for a Question [? · GW] format. The mods can probably switch this post to use the question format, but in the future you can easily create questions from the same place you create posts.

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comment by Taran · 2021-08-27T11:56:13.583Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I liked Statistical Rethinking a lot, coming in as an engineer who needed to write code implementing different statistical concepts but only knew very basic statistics.