[zabiqapara]

To learn basic stats you're going to need to take a whole college level course.

BS... I aced AP Stat with all of 4 hours of study and a review book.

[Tveabuti]

I guess you can read the basics and get a grasp for the concepts but I thought I knew it all before taking the class and the truth is they really do go more indepth. Then again you took AP Stats in High School and I took Stats at a major University so I expect there is a difference in expectations between a high school student and a college student. I realize that AP classes give you partial college credit and I took several but the reality is most colleges won't give a student who took AP classes full credit for taking a college level course.

The reason is because as good as AP classes are they just aren't as in depth as at a real university.

[NofFoomiTot]

A recent survey indicates that 9 out of 10 statistical analyses are worthess.

[glopomcyte]

It wasn't required at my school for physics majors (but it was required for math majors). And it was the most boring math class I took. Absolutely worthless...

[Anamehuskeene]

My wife took an intro stats class to pad her average and avoid work.

Half the class failed, she didn't go to a single class, did not read the book and aced the final.

[RotsLoado]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
A recent survey indicates that 9 out of 10 statistical analyses are worthess. Was that result statistically significant?

[TOPERink]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Hm. My statistics textbooks is "Mathematical Statistics with Applications" by Wckerly, Mendenhall and Scheaffer. I have no idea how good it is comparitively. It's certainly a different focus than the text KH mentioned. I used to teach from that - it's a solid book but I wouldn't recommend to anyone with no prior exposure to basic stats.

[Sierabiera]

In my stats course we are using this book:

 shenfelter O., P.B. Levine , et D.J. Zimmerman, S

Statistics and Econometrics. Methods and application. Wiley 2003 [ISBN: 0471107875]

You could also look at this website:
http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html

"The Electronic Textbook begins with an overview of the relevant elementary (pivotal) concepts and continues with a more in depth exploration of specific areas of statistics, organized by "modules," accessible by buttons, representing classes of analytic techniques. A glossary of statistical terms and a list of references for further study are included."

[IrrettelatWet]

Seriously, everybody in physics knows everything taught in any intro stats class, but most never actually took the class.

Any physicist or mathematician can teach himself the entirety of that class in a day or two.

[Obebtetibre]

I had Taylor with some physics classes. I had Rice with my more advanced class (Which was actually mostly probability).

JM

[fotochicaes]

I have no idea what 400-level is. (4th year?)

Pretty much.