r/statistics is a subreddit with 629k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and pain & anger, and the community frequently discusses statistics, looking for a, struggling, question, and q, and they frequently recommend/review statistics book, textbook, and ide.
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Popular Themes in r/statistics
#1
Advice Requests
: "What is there besides Frequentist and Bayesian stats? [D] [R]"
27 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "[C] yet another job market question…is there still a future in statistics for younger MS grads?"
1 post
#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?"
72 posts
#2
Looking For A
49 posts
#3
Struggling
45 posts
#4
Question
: "[Question] Exploratory Factor Analysis"
32 posts
#5
Q
: "[Q] I corrected set of outliers for multiple testing. Why is there overlap between methods?"
28 posts
#6
Hard Time
8 posts
#7
Good
5 posts
#8
Education
: "[Research] [Education] My statistics machine learning notes (10K GitHub Star)"
5 posts
#9
Looking
4 posts
#10
Analysis
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
: "Is it normal for anti-bayesians to be so loud? [Q]"
78 posts
#2
Education
: "[E] Standard Error vs Standard Deviation - Explained"
33 posts
#3
Discussion
: "[D] watching tech bros treat massive probability distributions as absolute ground truth is driving me insane"
32 posts
#4
Career
: "[Career] What is the future for statisticians?"
32 posts
#5
Research
: "What are the current hot topics in Statistics that are NOT machine learning/data science/data mining/deep learning/AI? [R]"
18 posts
#6
Software
: "[S] lme4 now allows users to specify structured covariance matrices"
7 posts
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Last updated: July 24, 2026