Zed actually recommends quite a few books in his post: * Statistics; by Freedman, Pisani, Purves, and Adhikari. Norton publishers. * Introductory Stati

Zed actually recommends quite a few books in his post: * Statistics; by Freedman, Pisani, Purves, and Adhikari. Norton publishers. * Introductory Statistics with R; by Dalgaard. Springer publishers. * Statistical Computing: An Introduction to Data Analysis using S-Plus; by Crawley. Wiley publishers. * Statistical Process Control; by Grant, Leavenworth. McGraw-Hill publishers. * Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences; by Agresti, Finlay. Prentice-Hall publishers. * Methods of Social Research; by Baily. Free Press publishers. * Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS; by Venables, Ripley. Springer publishers.