I find MIT OCW courses on Statistics a good source of references. Reading books takes time, but you can find some lecture slides and lecture notes there. I, to

I find MIT OCW courses on Statistics a good source of references. Reading books takes time, but you can find some lecture slides and lecture notes there. I, too, found Statistics impenetrable. One solution I found was to learn Statistics from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science perspective. Instead of weird abstractions, in EE and CS one thinks of more concrete things, like random signals, or data sets. The best way to learn Statistics is to apply it. One problem, though, is that knowing only a little Statistics might be worse than knowing nothing.