| Hello, I studied economics and statistics in college and grad school, and worked as a teaching assistant for undergraduate statistics courses. Here is a short, annotated bibliography of my favorite statistics books. 1. Ayres, Ian (2007) Super Crunchers: Why Thinking by Numbers is the New Way to Be Smart [Good introductory summary of the main concepts in statistics with many real-world examples] 2. Bernstein, Peter (1996) Against the Gods: Remarkable Story of Risk [Intellectual history of statistics, accessible to beginning students.] 3. Healey, Joseph (2005) Statistics: A Tool for Social Research, 7E [This is the text book that was used in the undergraduate statistics courses while I was working as a teaching assistant at UC Santa Cruz.] 4. Kahneman, Daniel (2011) Thinking, Fast and Slow [Kahneman combines cognitive psychology with statistical concepts; highly recommended] 5. Silver, Nate (2012) Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail, but Some Don't [Silver's book offers an excellent summary of major concepts in statistics and how they are applied to real-world problems] 6. Taleb, Nassim Nicholas (2005) Fooled by Randomness, 2E _________ (2010) Black Swan: Impact of the Highly Improbable, 2E [Important critique of statistics and how it is mis-used and mis-applied, particularly in econometrics] Hope this helps. Shoot me an email if you have any questions. Good luck.
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As a recommendation to the OP, "Collective Intelligence" by Toby Segaran is amazing.