Statistics 101: From Data Analysis and Predictive Modeling to Measuring Distribution and Determining Probability, Your Essential Guide to Statistics

Statistics 101

From Data Analysis and Predictive Modeling to Measuring Distribution and Determining Probability, Your Essential Guide to Statistics

2018

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The idea of this book was very promising: a quick primer on Statistics that would help me take a small step towards understanding data science. I got tired of it eventually.

I am either missing large parts of mathematical understanding or the book has been carelessly written and edited. In many sections, I faced a complete disconnect between two paragraphs and I couldn't resolve that even on multiple re-reads. And then there were errors in numbers (typos, but repeated often) that would completely throw me off in understanding the data the author is trying to describe. I doubted myself in the beginning but I saw that this was a repeated pattern in the book.

I eventually gave it up and will look out for another book on this topic.

May 12, 2022