Statistics book to connect math and concepts

April 4, 2019 7:04 AM

Hey all, I am taking a college-level statistics I course, and I am finding that I am pretty okay at going through the steps to make the math pop out, but I am feeling a gap between that and what the concepts mean and do. From what I can tell, this is a somewhat old-fashioned stats class with the TI-84 front and center, if that helps you zero in on my issue. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks!
posted by lieberschnitzel to Education (5 answers total)

You might have a look at the open source book Statistical Thinking for the 21st Century.
posted by exogenous at 7:10 AM on April 4, 2019

This is a really fun book that's surprisingly good as an intro - Cartoon Guide to Statistics. I think I actually got it assigned as one of the books in my college stats class.
posted by true at 7:20 AM on April 4, 2019 [1 favorite]

It's a combination of online reading and videos instead of the requested book, but I took the free Probability and Statistics course from Stanford last summer, and it made those connections for me in a way that no other class (high school or college) did. It's self-paced, so there's no class schedule to keep up with; you can read and watch (and do the exercises if you want, they definitely helped me) on your own schedule.
posted by okayokayigive at 7:53 AM on April 4, 2019 [1 favorite]

The classic How to Lie with Statistics may have hints.
posted by sammyo at 8:34 AM on April 4, 2019

Statistics, better explained.
posted by oceano at 7:02 PM on April 4, 2019