🗑️ 🧵 STATISTICS
Anonymous at Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:54:44 UTC No. 16084722
HELP!!! Statistics is kicking my ass.
What book should I pick up on statistics to get the theory and the procedure. I want an almost algorithmic step by step for the procedure and the theory to be clear but not necessarily over-explained like I'm a child.
Organic Chemistry Tutor (GOAT) is helping but I want a book.
Also, I need to learn how to work with statistics in R but that could be a separate book.
bodhi at Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:18:43 UTC No. 16084850
yah all the psueds here act like calculus is some mega giga brained math, I thought it was fairly easy as math goes, just memorizing formulas like any other math but stats ..... stats was the hardest math I ever took. Good luck
Anonymous at Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:28:08 UTC No. 16084864
>>16084850
stats was ok, probability kicked my ass because of some unintuitive concepts
Anonymous at Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:40:44 UTC No. 16084878
>>16084850
My faggot professor is just presenting a bunch of formulae and terms at us with no theoretical basis just saying here use this in this type of situation and this in this other situation like I'm going to remember it all of this random, convoluted BS unless I practice over and over again and read a book that isn't completely fucking useless.
Hell, like you said, calculus makes way more sense. None of the rules seem arbitrary because the theory is all there in what your doing. I'm also taking differential equations now and I managed to score way higher on that test than my stats test.
Anonymous at Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:47:07 UTC No. 16084887
>>16084722
Stats 101? Try Doc Edge's "Statistical Thinking from Scratch," faggot. When you pass, use McElreath's "Statistical Rethinking" to purge your tiny faggot brain of Stats 101 trash and put actually useful stats in there.
Anonymous at Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:03:05 UTC No. 16084910
>>16084887
> Bayesian
So the first book you recommended looks exactly like the sort of thing I need which is good but the second book you recommended is completely useless to me at this moment.
Are there any (gentle) statistics book that take a theoretical approach (less wordy, more mathy)? You know, less examples and more concept, definition, proof, theorem?
Anonymous at Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:19:34 UTC No. 16084931
>>16084910
>concept, definition, proof, theorem
>gentle
No, that's not 101, that's grad level. Wackerly's "Mathematical Statistics" is closest for undergrad but I hate it. Work on your probability instead.
>completely useless to me at this moment.
I did say when you have passed the exam. Stats 101 material is useless IRL. Even sociologists are moving on from p-value rubbish.
Anonymous at Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:25:13 UTC No. 16084996
>>16084722
you sure do seem to like talking about yourself on social media