r/rstats • u/Available_Pangolin76 • 17d ago

Book Recommendations after ESL

I am currently reading through Elements of Statistical Learning and was searching for books to read after I'm done with this. I was eyeing some optimization theory books, or should I pick up maybe a pure probability book? I wanted to build a stronger theoretical foundation, but I'm not sure if it would be more useful than focusing on a more applied kind of book.

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u/selfintersection 17d ago

If you like probability, BDA3

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u/Unbearablefrequent 11d ago

wtf, how is that a probability book

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u/selfintersection 11d ago

It's an applied statistics book that leans heavily on applied Bayesian probability theory.

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u/Unbearablefrequent 10d ago

That's not a pure probability book. Of course it uses probability theory. Just like any other Statistics book.

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u/selfintersection 10d ago

I think you may be surprised to learn that I never claimed it's a probability book.