How to Get into Statistics?

Question

My ultimate goal is to become proficient in statistical learning (you may know it as the boring part of ML). I&rsquo;ve read a lot of good things about Introduction to statistical learning, but that book assumes a level of statistical knowledge that I do not possess - specifically, it throws around word like t-distribution, degree of freedom, p-value etc.I&rsquo;d like to understand those basics before I get deeper into the book. Is there some other preliminary textbook which would introduce me to those concepts?

timwaagh · Accepted Answer

something called mathematical statistics and data analysis was my college textbook. it covers those things but it's a tough read and i did not like it. now actually, statistics is already quite advanced math. you might want to try learning probability theory and measure theory first as they are considered prerequisites.