This is one of the few hard cover books I have found worth its price. The statistical principles are succinctly explained such that they can be quickly implemented.
All of Statistics, by Larry Wassserman (2013) [pdf]
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Re: All of Statistics, by Larry Wassserman (2013) [pdf]
#12There's a typo in the title, it's Wasserman, 2 's' only. Can someone fix it?
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#13Can someone say in few sentences what Statistics is all about? I can't shake off the feeling that it is just glorified curve fitting. Edit: Please stop the down votes, just an electrical engineer here, with one basic course in Probability and Stat. :)
Pretty much any kind of mathematical modelling that involves uncertainty, really. Making inferences and predictions from data, in the presence of uncertainty. Analysis of the properties of procedures for doing the above. If you want examples that avoid the feel of just "curve fitting" (assume you mean something like "inferring parameters given noisy observations of them") -- maybe look at models involving latent vari…
Thanks! I had a course at uni named Probability and Statistics, but since it was first (and only) course in EE curriculum it was oriented toward probability, and Statistics was an afterthought (I only remember simple linear and multilinear regression). That is probably the main reason I only see curve fitting everywhere :)
Re: All of Statistics, by Larry Wassserman (2013) [pdf]
#14Can someone say in few sentences what Statistics is all about? I can't shake off the feeling that it is just glorified curve fitting. Edit: Please stop the down votes, just an electrical engineer here, with one basic course in Probability and Stat. :)
As an EE, how would you explain concepts like a PN junction or field effect transistor without using statistical mechanics? (Ie, expected behaviour for ensembles of huge numbers of particles).
Re: All of Statistics, by Larry Wassserman (2013) [pdf]
#15One of my favorite books! Shows you how connected statistical inference and machine learning really are.
Re: All of Statistics, by Larry Wassserman (2013) [pdf]
#16Sadly, no link to free eBook, which is not surprising because it seems that the book is still in print, having been released as recently as 2004, and updated in 2005 and 2013. This post links to the website supporting the book and provides links to errata, code and data. The links on the page to Springer and Amazon are broken: Here are valid links: http://www.springer.com/de/book/9780387402727 http://www.amazon.com/A…
Not sure about HN's policy on posting links to pirated material, but as a Freedom of Information supporter, I will note that the book can be found at http://gen.lib.rus.ec .
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>In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so.
Depends on just how broad article is.
Re: All of Statistics, by Larry Wassserman (2013) [pdf]
#17Can someone say in few sentences what Statistics is all about? I can't shake off the feeling that it is just glorified curve fitting. Edit: Please stop the down votes, just an electrical engineer here, with one basic course in Probability and Stat. :)
Statistics has, of course, grown from its beginnings as a means to summarize social/population conditions (the median number of serfs per farm, average bushels per acre, etc), yet: "estimating an accurate metric, (for example a 'central tendency'), from incomplete data" remains a central theme.
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#18Happy to see a book like this trending on hn, especially with a sentence like: "Using fancy tools like neural nets, boosting, and support vector machines without understanding basic statistics is like doing brain surgery before knowing how to use a band-aid." in it's preface. I definitely agree, since I wasted a lot of time doing fruitless surgeries before I went and learned about band aids in depth. From my look at…
> since I wasted a lot of time doing fruitless surgeries before I went and learned about band aids in depth
I'm going to just assume you're being literal here. It's really brightened up my day to imagine the moment such a person discovered you could close up wounds after surgery.
Re: All of Statistics, by Larry Wassserman (2013) [pdf]
#19There's a typo in the title, it's Wasserman, 2 's' only. Can someone fix it?
I think it's just part of the neue Rechtschreibung.
Re: All of Statistics, by Larry Wassserman (2013) [pdf]
#20Can someone say in few sentences what Statistics is all about? I can't shake off the feeling that it is just glorified curve fitting. Edit: Please stop the down votes, just an electrical engineer here, with one basic course in Probability and Stat. :)
As an EE, how would you explain concepts like a PN junction or field effect transistor without using statistical mechanics? (Ie, expected behaviour for ensembles of huge numbers of particles).
The models EE use are simplified, drift and diffusion current and electron and holes with their different mobilities and energy levels. Math apparatus used here, and strictly related to statistics, is limited to averaging, I would dare to say.