 What is the best first book in statistics? This is a question. I just got a couple days ago and I thought that I had a great answer for this So looking at all the different books, there's there's quite a few intro to statistics books lots of text book out there but I think that this this one that I have in mind is more geared towards people who are trying to do some self-learning maybe they don't have a structured course and This book really just fits the bill. It hits the main points Sets a good foundation so you can jump into the more advanced mathematical statistics books That book is open intro statistics, and I started with this book years ago I don't know if it was edition two or three But now we're on edition four and I think it is a great book for statistics The reason I like it is that it covers the main points you get through some probability some random variable discussion and Even into regression topics linear regression multiple regression logistic regression And I think those are all great topics to hit in a intro to statistics book Another thing I like beyond just the content is the design the fonts are clean readable The colors are used well the tables are very good the diagrams are Simple and there's there's not a lot of clutter in this book the exercises are great They have little practice questions that you can do as you're reading And I think it's good to reinforce what you're learning as you're reading it. I Think the length is great The length is less than 400 pages and lots of times, but what you'll see in textbooks or intro textbooks is that You get a lot of authors contributing to a textbook and over time it bloats. It becomes huge This book comes in in under 400 pages Finally one of the best parts about this book is that it has a great solutions section I think if you're doing cell study, that's something that could be overlooked I mean a lot of books do come with with solution sets at the very end But this is this is just a really great Thing to make sure the box is checked on you don't want to get a book that has exercises and doesn't have Doesn't have a solution section So it's just good to make sure that you're staying on the right track. So that's it That's what I would recommend for a very first intro to statistics book. That's it. And thanks for watching