For those who want a good introductory book to the basics of statistics and statistical learning, I would recommend the book “Introduction to The Practice of Statistics” by Moore, McCabe and Craig.
The book was used as the textbook for one of the MSIT course at Northwestern.
Table of contents:
- Looking at Data—Distributions
- Looking at Data—Relationships
- Producing Data
- Probability: The Study of Randomness
- Sampling Distributions
- Introduction to Inference
- Inference for Distributions
- Inference for Proportions
- Analysis of Two-Way Tables
- Inference for Regression
- Multiple Regression
- One-Way Analysis of Variance
- Two-Way Analysis of Variance
Optional Companion Chapters (available at www.whfreeman.com/ips8e)
- Logistic Regression
- Nonparametric Tests
- Bootstrap Methods and Permutation Tests
- Statistics for Quality: Control and Capability