I thought "Intuitive Biostatistics: A Nonmathematical Guide to Statistical Thinking" combined with "PDQ Statistics" did okay. Way better than the awful instruc

I thought "Intuitive Biostatistics: A Nonmathematical Guide to Statistical Thinking" combined with "PDQ Statistics" did okay. Way better than the awful instructor textbook taught as an intro to higher-level stats with R and S-Plus, and a useful supplement to the basic 101-102 level applied statistics textbook. But probably the most useful thing was a college course where we implemented all the 101 & 102 level statistics algorithms in Excel, so you could see precisely what it was doing.