Mathematical statistics and data analysis

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1. yomritoyjNov 2016
   Elementary: Freedman, Pisani, Purves, "Statistics" (uses some unconventional terminology)

   Intermediate: Rice, "Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis"

   Wasserman's "All of Statistics" is also a very good book except that it is too terse to be a primary text.

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2. codeonfireAug 2015
   Yeah just the books I used in school: Ross - A First Course in Probability Rice - Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis Casella - Statistical Inference
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3. pskomorochJan 2010
   Nice lists, I often recommend these for people who want an introduction to the field:

   "Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis" by John A. Rice

   "All of Statistics: A Concise Course in Statistics" by Larry Wasserman

   "Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning" by Christopher M. Bishop

   "The Elements of Statistical Learning" by T. Hastie et al http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/

   "Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms", David McKay http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.html

   "Introduction to Information Retrieval" - Manning et al. http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/information-retrieval-book.h...

   "The Algorithm Design Manual, 2nd Edition" - Steven Skiena http://www.algorist.com/

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4. timwaaghOct 2019
   something called mathematical statistics and data analysis was my college textbook. it covers those things but it's a tough read and i did not like it. now actually, statistics is already quite advanced math. you might want to try learning probability theory and measure theory first as they are considered prerequisites.
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