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Probability & Statistics (Applied, Books): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Books Best Sellers data for Probability & Statistics (Applied, Books), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $23.50, median 266 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 32/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $12.23 – $36.75 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 5% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Books |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 44% of the parent category Applied (597), one of the easier corners under it.
- At $23.50 its median price beats 82% of Books categories, leaving more margin per copy.
- Only 5% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 75% of Books categories: established titles hold the list.
Top 10 Probability & Statistics best sellers
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The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
by David Spiegelhalter
- List rank#1
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews4,165
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The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
by Judea Pearl
- List rank#2
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews2,485
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
- List rank#3
- Price$15.69
- Rating4.4
- Reviews6,709
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Factfulness
by Hans Rosling
- List rank#4
- Price$9.85
- Rating4.6
- Reviews28,208
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How to Lie with Statistics
by Darrell Huff
- List rank#5
- Price$7.95
- Rating4.4
- Reviews4,540
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Freakonomics: Revised Edition
- List rank#6
- Price$15.59
- Rating4.4
- Reviews6,064
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The Mathematics of Large Language Models: A Readable Guide to LLMs, Transformers, Diffusion, Neural Networks, and Generative AI (The Mathematics of Artificial Intelligence)
- List rank#7
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.0
- Reviews87
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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't
by Nate Silver
- List rank#8
- Price$11.48
- Rating4.4
- Reviews3,922
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Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
by Charles Wheelan
- List rank#9
- Price$10.48
- Rating4.5
- Reviews3,850
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A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
by Barbara Oakley PhD
- List rank#10
- Price$11.35
- Rating4.6
- Reviews6,939
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FAQ
Is Probability & Statistics a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 32/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 266 reviews and sells for $23.50.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Probability & Statistics?
The median best seller has 266 reviews, and 24% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Probability & Statistics best sellers cost?
The median price is $23.50; half of the best sellers are priced between $12.23 and $36.75.
Can new books break into Probability & Statistics?
5% of the current best sellers were released in the last 90 days.
About this data
Data comes from KDPTop's daily crawl of Amazon's public Best Sellers pages; medians use the latest list. The opportunity score (0–100, higher is easier to enter) combines the review barrier, the share of low-review books, list turnover, new-release share and price.