Introduction to Modern Statistics

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  • tests-as-linear

    Common statistical tests are linear models (or: how to teach stats)

  • I think those short courses would be more effective if they didn't bother with ANOVA and instead taught intro probability and distributions and then jumped straight to regression. ANOVA is just a really specific way of doing a regression.

    In R, and python::statsmodels you get the answer to (essentially) an ANOVA any time you run an LM or GLM; its the Z-statistic for your whole model.

    I know there is more nuance to this, but teaching students that they can use regression for most of the problems they would have used seemingly arcane tests for is going to be much more useful for the students.

    Here is a lovely page demonstrating how to do this in R: https://lindeloev.github.io/tests-as-linear/

  • ims

    📚 Introduction to Modern Statistics - A college-level open-source textbook with a modern approach highlighting multivariable relationships and simulation-based inference. For v1, see https://openintro-ims.netlify.app.

  • Hmmm ... must be because the 2nd edition is still in progress. Best option might be to follow the immortal words of Obiwan Kenobi and "use the source": https://github.com/OpenIntroStat/ims

    Otherwise you can try building a PDF from the very similar Data 8 book[1] using [2]

    [1]: https://github.com/data-8/textbook

    [2]: https://jupyterbook.org/en/stable/advanced/pdf.html

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  • textbook

    The textbook Computational and Inferential Thinking: The Foundations of Data Science (by data-8)

  • Hmmm ... must be because the 2nd edition is still in progress. Best option might be to follow the immortal words of Obiwan Kenobi and "use the source": https://github.com/OpenIntroStat/ims

    Otherwise you can try building a PDF from the very similar Data 8 book[1] using [2]

    [1]: https://github.com/data-8/textbook

    [2]: https://jupyterbook.org/en/stable/advanced/pdf.html

  • jasp-desktop

    JASP aims to be a complete statistical package for both Bayesian and Frequentist statistical methods, that is easy to use and familiar to users of SPSS

  • Even better than just being "free to use" it's F/OSS (under the AGPL):

    https://github.com/jasp-stats/jasp-desktop

  • stat-cookbook

    :orange_book: The probability and statistics cookbook

  • For studying statistics, I put together a comprehensive cheat sheet: https://github.com/mavam/stat-cookbook

  • statistical-rethinking

    A repository for working through the Bayesian statistics book "Statistical Rethinking" by Richard McElreath.

  • With all due respect, how hard did you look?

    This is the third result from a query I ran:

    https://github.com/Booleans/statistical-rethinking/blob/mast...

    Main repo w/ some notebooks: https://github.com/Booleans/statistical-rethinking

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