I tried diving into All of Statistics but I found it to be way too concise. I didn’t get past Chapter 3. In particular Chapter 3 felt like a list of distributions and some arbitrary properties. It felt like I wasn’t really getting an intuition for what these distributions represent or why these properties are interesting. In the end I dropped the book because I felt like a wasn’t really learning anything.
My negative experience with this book is likely a result of me having no previous experience with statitistics.
I think that that’s reasonable—there really aren’t many intuitions offered for the distributions. I got more of that from the Bayesian Statistics course I took concurrently and from reading Wikipedia pages. A lot of the rest seemed well-motivated, though!
I tried diving into All of Statistics but I found it to be way too concise. I didn’t get past Chapter 3. In particular Chapter 3 felt like a list of distributions and some arbitrary properties. It felt like I wasn’t really getting an intuition for what these distributions represent or why these properties are interesting. In the end I dropped the book because I felt like a wasn’t really learning anything.
My negative experience with this book is likely a result of me having no previous experience with statitistics.
I think that that’s reasonable—there really aren’t many intuitions offered for the distributions. I got more of that from the Bayesian Statistics course I took concurrently and from reading Wikipedia pages. A lot of the rest seemed well-motivated, though!
Do you happen to remember which Bayesian Statistics course you took? I’m interested in following the same steps.