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Any good book on statistics would be a huge asset, as well as a book about debugging strategies.


Statistics books I liked:

Motulsky's Intuitive Biostatistics - this one goes over all the usual methods used in science from distributions to t-test to ANOVA to regressions etc., the basics, but doesn't introduce the maths (you use R for that) but the assumptions and pitfalls of all of those methods.

Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide - this is all the stuff that's going wrong in applied statistics, a bit short but enlightening

Discovering Statistics Using R - a whopper of a book (~1000 pages?), it goes through everything while also being funny (the constant humor may not be for everyone). Graphs, correlations, regressions, all the MLMs and GLMs, linear models etc. pp., their assumptions, how to run them in R, how to interpret R's sometimes annoying output, etc. pp. Like Motulsky's, but wayyyyy more in-depth on the language's specifics.

Naked Statistics - an intro to stats for laypeople with a focus on politics/economics, good for interpreting and assessing daily news


> as well as a book about debugging strategies

Any examples of books focused on that? I can't think of any.



'The Cartoon Guide to Statistics', Gonick and Smith, is surprisingly substantial for its style and target, an easy way to get started.


Think stats (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920020745.do) is very enjoyable and very practical. You can read it online for free.


Any title ?




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