While the first half, dealing with basic stats concepts is useful, the second half is long-winded and repetitive. ( )

Statistics Demystified is another book in the “Self-Teaching Guide” Demystified series. As with most of the books in a series meant to teach, it begins with the Foundations, the basics of the mathematics that we will be getting into. It has the usual part where the book describes what is and what is not statistical data. The true meat and potatoes of the book get into the mathematical aspects of probability, which is actually pretty simple. You have a possible outcome and a chance of it happening and you have to determine if some events are related or not and so on.

Once you start to add Multiple Disjoint outcomes to the mix it gets slightly messy but it isn’t too bad. The math doesn’t really get too heavy at all. It is mainly charts, graphs, tables and so on. The math used to analyze the data is simple enough and somewhat interesting. All in all, the charts and graphs are readable, it demonstrates how to read this data and interpret it and it does so pretty well.

It has workable problems and plenty of examples, making this book pretty effective if you don’t have another way to learn this material. Another little thing about this book that doesn’t really matter is that it was printed in 2004, so while it isn’t really up to date, there isn’t really much that changed in the realm of Statistics. It was written by Stan Gibilisco, a person that I have heard of before due to the books that I have. ( )