Best introductory statistics book to develop intuitive grasp of topic?

5 pointsby akd18 tahun yang lalu2 comments

What's a good introductory statistics book? I've found a few but they suffer from one of two faults:

* One type glosses over everything and just spits out a bunch of formulas that you are supposed to apply. There's no thought given to explaining the conceptual understanding...such as WHY confidence intervals vary as the square root of sample size.

* Another type is made for theoretical math majors and is based on extremely rigorous proofs of arcane details which I'm not interested in.

Is there a good book that strikes a balance and teaches me an intuitive grasp of statistics? I'm already very familiar with probability.

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macmac18 tahun yang lalu

Introduction to Statistical Thought is nice: http://www.stat.duke.edu/~michael/print.pdf

Also I think below links are all quite interesting:

http://yudkowsky.net/bayes/bayes.html

http://www.stats202.com/

akd18 tahun yang lalu

thanks! I will check these out.