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by wjnc 3542 days ago
Old but gold. Kennedys 'A guide to econometrics'. Not so much a textbook as a book that ties theory to practice and explains common pitfalls and intuitions. It's one upmanship in statistical practice.

You shouldn't try to learn stat on par with your teams. Learn to ask the right questions.

If you prefer learning by doing then Elements of statistical learning would give you some modern skills plus add good questions (model testing and prediction are imho more important than base skills, and central to the work of Tibshirani et.al.) to your book.

I think the coaching approach in the other response thread is worthwile as well. If you weren't really into stats before and haven't read up when it wasn't part of your day job, the route of learning the skillset seems a detour. Possible if motivated ofc, but you need advice on managing stat heavy teams. That is a different, though related ballpark.