Elementary Statistics

This revised 5th edition is a very fine book for those who understand very basics about data and may have some knowledge of high school statistics. A read through this small book from end to end will help you understand very clearly all the concepts and if your own highlights can be a very good review. Free from distractions of using calculator/software ( which is necessary for doing real analysis though), this book is very easy to understand and retain concepts like chance-alone, z-score,std dev, Std Error, Plots, student t ratio, F ratio, ANOVA, Regression and not the least non-parametric where our paramteric assumptios fail. One of the great qualities that each chapter ends with step-by-step procedure which is so great for review that as you do it you will get to like it more and more and you will feel why some other books are missing this part with subject like statistics. I would recommend this book for advanced students too if they plan to revise their knowledge once learnt about statistics.

I used this book as an undergrad in 2001. It was such an easy read and explained stats so clearly. I sold it back after the class was over and it was one of only two books that I wish I had never sold back. Now I'm in graduate stats and I bought it again just to use as a reference. It's great!