I asked this mailing list for book recommendations a few weeks ago.
One of the books I selected was "Introductory Statistics with R" by
Peter Dalgaard. I am embarrassed to say that this book was too terse
for me. I wasn't able to get very far with it. However, I was
fortunate enough to stumble upon "Statistical Reasoning" by Bruce King
and Edward Minium. King & Minium progress step-by-step from basic
concepts to analysis of variance and some non-parametric methods without
any sophisticated math. The presentation is so simple that the book
could probably be used as a textbook for a high school class. Anyway,
after finishing "Statistical Reasoning," I found that Dalgaard covers
many of the same topics except more in the style of an R reference
manual. So now I'm happy with both of the books.
As for the book list, I suggest the addition of some book like
"Statistical Reasoning" even though there is no mention R (even a
calculator is not required!). This book helped me grok the basics (what
is the central limit theorem? ;-).
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