It seems that tere is plenty of books for statistical beginners. The only
book that got two voices was:
Gonnick, Larry and Woollcott Smith
1993 The Cartoon Guide to Statistics. HarperPerennial, New York.
Anyway I found out there's excellent collection of english books about
statistics at The University of Technology library at Tampere. I'm going
to visit there and take look at them and maybe after that choose the one
I like best.
Here is the the compiled list of all the replies:
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---Paul Cohen: book for applying statistics to Artificial Intelligence research
Gonnick, Larry and Woollcott Smith 1993 The Cartoon Guide to Statistics. HarperPerennial, New York.
Huck,S.W., Cormier, W.H. & Bounds, W.C. (1974). READING STSTISTICS AND RESEARCH, Harper and Row, New York. ( a new edition of this is in press and will be published in November, 94)
Jager, R.J. (1990). STATISTICS: A SPECTATOR SPORT. 2nd. ed., Sage Publishers
Wilbert Leonard: Basic Social Statistics
Moore and McCabe 'Introduction to the Practice of Statistics'
Moore: Statistics, Concepts and Controversies.New York, Freeman and Co.
C. Morris and E. Thanassoulis, Essential Mathematics: A Refresher Course for Business and Social Studies, Macmillan.
V.K.Rohatgi:An introduction to probability theory and mathematical statistics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1976
Mary Rouncefield & Peter Holmes, Practical Statistics, Macmillan.
Derek Rowntree: Statistics without tears: A primer for non-mathematicians (Penguin) isbn 0-14-022326-6
Milo Shott: Foundation Mathematics for Non-mathematicians,, Open University Press.
Siegel's _Statistics and Data Analysis_ (Wiley)
Peter Sprent: Management Mathematics: A User Friendly Approach, Penguin Books.
Statistics for Business: An Introduction by P. Whitehead and G. Whitehead, Pitman.
Quantitative Methods for Decision Makers by M. Wisniewski, Pitman.
HIGHER LEVEL
Rice's "Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis"
Kalbfleisch's 'Probability and Statistical Inference'
SPECIAL
Tanur's 'Statistics - A Guide to the Unknown.'
"How to Lie With Statistics" by Darrell Huff (c. 1954, New York:Norton Press)
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