Reference
VOL. IMAR 2026
The Library.
A short list of the papers and books that are actually worth your time. Statistics has a lot of important literature and most of it is dense and hard to navigate. This is the part that matters.
"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."— Henry Ward Beecher
BOOK
Statistical Modeling
An Introduction to Statistical Learning
Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, Rob Tibshirani
2023
A brilliant introductory book into the world of data science and advanced statistical modeling, mixing intuition, rigor, and applied Python coding. It covers everything from the basic Linear Regression to Deep Learning models.
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PAPER
PhilosophyStatistical Modeling: The Two Cultures
Leo Breiman
2001
A seminal paper comparing the two cultures of statistical modeling: data modeling (inference) vs. algorithmic modeling (prediction).
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