Not who you asked, but: Statistics in Plan English. Regression Analysis by Gilman Elements of Statistical Learning. You need to throw some matrix algebra an

Not who you asked, but: Statistics in Plan English. Regression Analysis by Gilman Elements of Statistical Learning. You need to throw some matrix algebra and calc 1 & 2 somewhere in between. Certainly before ESL. It would also require You can't simply read the books and go through the examples. You will be stuck at a concept at many occasions and you will battle it out until after much googling and reading additional papers, you finally get. After those 3 books, you've got the basics.