Linked Questions
22 questions linked to/from Free statistical textbooks
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AP Statistics exam [duplicate]
I have a good handle on probability theory, at least I understand the book I 1st course in probablity by Ross.
However, I am having a hard time understanding Statistics, I got a prep book to teach ...
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Open Source statistical textbooks?
There have been a few questions about statistical textbooks, such as the question Free statistical textbooks. However, I am looking for textbooks that are Open Source, for example, having an Creative ...
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Free econometrics textbooks
Are there any free econometrics textbooks available online for individual use?
I'm aware of Bruce Hansen's first year PhD Econometrics textbook, but I'd be interested to hear if there are any other ...
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Understanding multiple regression output
I am a first year psychology student. I am doing some research work with a prof, unfortunately the material that I need to use right now is covered only in my second year. But I need to already know ...
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Online reference for review of introductory statistics material
Can anyone suggest a good review reference (necessarily free online PDF) to brush up college-level statistics?
I'm looking at something which typically covers a first course in statistics ideally ...
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Is statistics.com class worth the money?
I'm debating taking some classes on statistics.com and was curious if anyone has taken classes there or knows any one who has or has any suggestions for good ways to learn stats/machine learning on ...
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Most efficient way to check answers to exercises when learning from a statistics textbook?
There's a community wiki at: Free statistical textbooks that has a nice list of freely available textbooks on statistics. Many of the textbooks that people suggest have exercises at the end of each ...
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What does a Barplot, a Boxplot and eCDF represent?
I want to understand what a barplot, boxplot, and eCDF represent when they are used for plotting data.
A barplot is kind of intuitive, easy to understand what it represents. But I fail to understand ...
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Normality test and Outlier detection [duplicate]
In this question, I would like to ask two things:
outlier detection
normality test
Details are as follows:
I need to detect and remove outliers in my data. Before doing that, I want to test if my ...
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Normal Distribution: Is it made with replacement or without replacement?
I am confused about how a normal distribution is drawn. Are the elements drawn with or without replacement?
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Why does One Way ANOVA not have an SSE Term?
For a Two Way ANOVA with two factors A and B, the Sum of Square equation is:-
SSTO = SSA + SSB + SSAB + SSE
Where,
SSTO = Total Sum of Squares
SSA = Sum of Squares due to Factor A
SSB = Sum of ...
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What model to use for predicting points of a FPL player(football)?
I want to implement a project to find (predict) points scored by each player for the coming gameweek. I am targeting Fantasy Premier League(FPL) for this. What I exactly want to do is using previous ...
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Statistics book recommendation for absolute beginners and non-mathematics people
Based on this this and this, but also looking for following specifications
For absolute beginners level, and easy type book.
Easy to read (Less text, larger fonts).
Not mathematically rigorous.
More ...
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References about the theory of linear regression or regression in general
I am looking for references about the theory of linear regression or regression in general. More specifically, I am interested in knowing under what circumstances an estimated regressor is going to ...
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Regression equation in tree algorithms
Is there any possibility to obtain regression equation (y=...) by using tree algorithms (e.g.random forest, gradient boost or xgboost) ? As I understand, the target that we attempt to use these ...
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Statistical analysis of carbon dioxide flux data
I have been measuring flux of CO2 in (mmol m-2 d-1) from two different rivers and I now want to do a statistical analysis using IBM SPSS but I'm not sure where to start. One lake is showing negative ...
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Understanding regression output
I have 2702 records with one target variable (Y) and 11 independent/predictor variables (X1-X11).
I am doing multivariable regression to understand if I can predict Y using X or if there is any ...
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One-sided ttests in regression analysis with a clear prior
This question has been asked virtually the same in this post:
Regression Slope and a Bilateral Test
However, I still don't get my head around why when I have a clear hypothesis of a positive ...
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Is there any "Intro to Statistics" for business and mangement use?
I am looking for an "Introduction to Statistics" to apply to business and management. Can someone recommend a source they have used (maybe in their MBA or similar studies) that is available online (...
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Interpreting the output of linear regression [duplicate]
I used scipy.stats.linregress function for my dataset. It returns 5 output variables.
Slope = 0.0453
Intercept = 14.905
r-value = 0.91
p-value = 0
standard error of estimate = 0.00015
This is the ...
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Free very basic downloadable printable stats textbook
I volunteer teach a (very) basic stats course at a local medium/high security prison. My intent is just to get across basic ideas so that the inmates can make some contact with that branch of thinking....
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General Steps for Building a Regression Tree?
Wanted to make sure that I have the proper steps for building a Regression Decision Tree correct. Please let me know if I'm missing anything or if something looks incorrect:
Build a fully grown tree:
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