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I always always recommend the book by Anastassios Papoulis. 1) Never start with stats, start with probability. 2) Never read a stat textbook not written by a probabilist. Beware, there are plenty, plenty, plenty of stats books written by psychologists! https://t.co/tVYO73HLFB
— Nassim Taleb
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1156865013455437824
Yuuuge. His book is the clearest .
— Nassim Taleb
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1078316633184186368
When readers and students ask to me for a useable book for nonmathematicians to get into probability (or a probabilistic approach to statistics), before embarking into deeper problems, I suggest this book by the Late A. Papoulis. I even recommend it to mathematicians as their training often tends to make them spend too much time on limit theorems and very little on the actual "plumbing". [...]
— Nassim Taleb
2013-07-21 on amazon.com