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 quite a few intro to statistics books, lots of texts book out there. But I think that this one of 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. Set to good foundations who 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 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 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 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 solutions sets at the very end. But 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 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.