Statistics For Dummies by Deborah Rumsey   
John Wiley & Sons © 2003 (356 pages)
这本书解释基本统计思想，方法，公式和计算，并包括例子说明这些概念适用于您的日常生活。
如果你已经了解基本统计思想了，花一两个小时读一下这本书是个不坏的注意。
如果不太清楚基本统计思想，认真读一下也不错。
Part I - Vital Statistics about Statistics
Chapter 1 - The Statistics of Everyday Life
Chapter 2 - Statistics Gone Wrong
Chapter 3 - Tools of the Trade
Part II - Number-Crunching Basics
Chapter 4 - Getting the Picture—Charts and Graphs
Chapter 5 - Means, Medians, and More
Part III - Determining the Odds
Chapter 6 - What Are the Chances?—Understanding Probability
Chapter 7 - Gambling to Win
Part IV - Wading through the Results
Chapter 8 - Measures of Relative Standing
Chapter 9 - Caution—Sample Results Vary!
Chapter 10 - Leaving Room for a Margin of Error
Part V - Guesstimating with Confidence
Chapter 11 - The Business of Estimation—Interpreting and Evaluating Confidence Intervals
Chapter 12 - Calculating Accurate Confidence Intervals
Chapter 13 - Commonly Used Confidence Intervals—Formulas and Examples
Part IV - Putting a Claim to the (Hypothesis) Test
Chapter 14 - Claims, Tests, and Conclusions
Chapter 15 - Commonly Used Hypothesis Tests—Formulas and Examples
Part VII - Statistical Studies—The Inside Scoop
Chapter 16 - Polls, Polls, and More Polls
Chapter 17 - Experiments—Medical Breakthroughs or Misleading Results?
Chapter 18 - Looking for Links—Correlations and Associations
Chapter 19 - Statistics and Toothpaste—Quality Control
Part VIII - The Part of Tens
Chapter 20 - Ten Criteria for a Good Survey
Chapter 21 - Ten Common Statistical Mistakes