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Popular Themes in r/statistics
#1
Advice Requests
: "Do you think Statistics is moving away from its home in Mathematics to Computer Science? [Q] [R]"
50 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Need help implementing LinRegTInt on the TI-83 Plus [Q]"
2 posts
Popular Topics in r/statistics
#1
Statistics
: "Statistics question I got in a job application test that I don't think has a correct answer (hypothesis testing) [Q]"
144 posts
#2
Question
: "[Question] Strucutral Equation Models - can anyone eliminate my doubts?"
119 posts
#3
Q
: "Is a bonferroni-adjusted p-value (or some other adjusted version) needed anytime you do more than 1 hypothesis test? [Q]"
64 posts
#4
Discussion
: "[Discussion]: Nassim Taleb's Incerto series for a Statistician."
59 posts
#5
Looking For A
49 posts
#6
Struggling
45 posts
#7
Career
: "[Career] What is the future for statisticians?"
38 posts
#8
Research
: "Public list of 1500+ Startups that just raised money and are about to hire [Research]"
30 posts
#9
Education
: "How hard is it for a college student [Education] with no internships to land a job out of graduation? [Career]"
25 posts
#10
D
: "[E][D] Keeping up with statistics post graD?"
20 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]"
80 posts
#2
Career
: "[Career] What is the future for statisticians?"
34 posts
#3
Education
: "[E][D] Keeping up with statistics post grad?"
34 posts
#4
Discussion
: "[D] watching tech bros treat massive probability distributions as absolute ground truth is driving me insane"
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]"
15 posts
#6
Software
: "[S] lme4 now allows users to specify structured covariance matrices"
5 posts
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+28k members(4.7%)
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Last updated: June 22, 2026