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5 Free Books to Learn Statistics for Data Science

Learn all the statistics you need for data science for free

Rebecca Vickery
Towards Data Science
6 min readNov 28, 2020

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Statistics is a fundamental skill that data scientists use every day. It is the branch of mathematics that allows us to collect, describe, interpret, visualise, and make inferences about data. Data scientists will use it for data analysis, experiment design, and statistical modelling.

Statistics is also essential for machine learning. We will use statistics to understand the data prior to training a model. When we take samples of data for training and testing our models we need to employ statistical techniques to ensure fairness. When evaluating the performance of a model we need statistics to assess the variability of the predictions and assess accuracy.

“If statistics are boring, you’ve got the wrong numbers.”, Edward Tufte

These are just some of the ways in which statistics are employed by data scientists. If you are studying data science it is therefore essential to develop a good understanding of these statistical techniques.

This is one area where books can be a particularly useful study tool as detailed explanations of statistical concepts is essential to your understanding.

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Rebecca Vickery
Rebecca Vickery

Written by Rebecca Vickery

Data Scientist | Writer | Speaker

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