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Popular Themes in r/statistics
#1
Advice Requests
: "[Q][E] Book to self study Probabilistic Machine Learning"
28 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "[Research] Seeking stats consultant for a tiny research project"
2 posts
#3
Ideas
: "[S] I made a site to simulate and visualize Actuarial/Statistical concepts (Runoff Triangles, Markov Chains, Survival Functions)"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/statistics
#1
Statistics
: "[Question] Pure math research for admission to PhD in Statistics?"
74 posts
#2
Looking For A
48 posts
#3
Struggling
43 posts
#4
Question
: "[Question] Exploratory Factor Analysis"
34 posts
#5
Q
20 posts
#6
Hard Time
8 posts
#7
Good
5 posts
#8
Looking
4 posts
#9
Analysis
4 posts
#10
Worst
4 posts
Products Discussed in r/statistics
Statistics Book
99 reviews
#1
Andy Field
4.4★ from 7 reviews
#2
Danielle Navarro
4.3★ from 3 reviews
#3
Casella & Berger
3.7★ from 3 reviews
Textbook
18 reviews
#1
Wackerly
3.3★ from 3 reviews
#2
DeGroot
4.0★ from 1 review
#3
Larsen and Marx
4.0★ from 1 review
Ide
2 reviews
#1
VS Code
4.0★ from 1 review
#2
RStudio
5.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/statistics
#1
Question
: "Did I make a mistake choosing Applied Math? [Q]"
42 posts
#2
Discussion
: "[Discussion] Why is an undergrad degree in statistics looked down upon compared to cs/math/physics majors?"
18 posts
#3
Education
: "[E] Standard Error vs Standard Deviation - Explained"
14 posts
#4
Career
: "How to actually get good at statistics?[career]"
9 posts
#5
Research
: "[R] The Benjamini–Hochberg Procedure Can Fail to Control the FDR for Correlated Two-Sided Gaussian Tests"
7 posts
#6
Software
: "[S] I made a Python package for rejection sampling"
4 posts
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+29k members(4.8%)
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Last updated: July 29, 2026