Statistics in a nutshell
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Read on Hacker News…ally well. The best person to teach someone is a beginner , because they understand the beginner's perspective. So you are in a unique position to create this. O'Reillys statistics in a nutshell is a good reference* book, but not quite a textbook. Here you go. Including my refid. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596510497?ie=UTF8&tag=... *True masters have beginner perspectives, so they are good teachers as well.
Read on Hacker News… a fun way to motivate yourself to learn some algorithms, number theory, and a few other math topics, by solving programming puzzles: http://projecteuler.net/ O'Reilly's Statistics in a Nutshell is a good stats textbook and reference, has some good exercises to be done in R (or S or Matlab), and is generally more programming-oriented than most statistics treatments. http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510497/ Two important classics are Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming (more algorithms/programming-focused; very steep learning curve) and Concrete Mathematics (with Ron Graham and Oren Patashnik; more math-focused; may be easier for self-study). Both have exercises you can work through, though many of the exercises are proofs (not easily translatable to programming).
Read on Hacker NewsO'Reilly's Statistics In a Nutshell is quite good as both a textbook and a reference. I'm (slowly) working through it on my own.
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