I find the Complete Idiot guide to statistics hard, and the utterly confused is also hard for someone who needs the basics in a language a beghinner not so good in Math can relate too.
What is a good basic Intro To Statistics book, and workbook?
Try Elementary Statistics by Robert R. Johnson, Patricia Kuby
I got this book from a used book shop because I'm a social science/humanities person, not too into math, and my statistics teacher at the university was really incompetent .
It is supposed to be a class text but I started doing it on my own and found it very well explained, and it carries you to the more complicated formulas very well. It has the answers to the odd exercises in the back, so you can check yourself. It also has many many exercises so you don't need an additional workbook.
Sometimes the idiot guides skip through a lot of important things because they want to make the books simple. They might have left out too much.
Others you might try are
Statistics: A Tool for Social Research (Hardcover)
by Joseph F. Healey
and
Statistics: The Exploration and Analysis of Data (with CD-ROM, InfoTrac, and Internet Companion) (Hardcover)
by Jay L. Devore, Roxy Peck
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