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I'm trying to break down my ugh field around learning probability and statistics by working through a few elementary level textbooks. Why? Because high-level understanding of the concepts isn't enough to let me test things myself, and the work I want to do will involve lots of statistical analysis.
I'm also working on the best way to get rid of most of my possessions, because I'll be moving overseas in several months and I intend to travel light and not leave my parents house filled with my clutter.
Are you planning on reading at least one Bayesian statistics book? Even if you don't plan on doing Bayesian statistics normally (for example, if you've got to share you work a lot), knowing Bayes stats is useful for understanding what other statistical approaches must approximate if they want to be useful. Bayesian stats also includes the very useful notion of Hierarchical Models. They're not taught in intro books (because it can be complex to fit them), but the concept is not hard to grasp from the various introductions on the internet.
Definitely planning to, but unsure if I'll have time before I leave for grad school to get more than a broad overview. On the other hand, writing this comment is making me explicitly aware of just how little time I have left, so hopefully time pressure effects will kick in to improve my productivity.