College students usually go through a senior comprehensive exam that contains statistics questions. They need a snap shot review
This is a good question with many possible answers.
A overview of elementary statistics is given in
Schaum Outline of Statistics, 5th Ed.
http://www.amazon.com/Schaums-Outline-Statistics-Edition-Series/dp/0071822526
This book is helpful because it includes 508 solved problems. In addition, it gives access to 25 detailed videos that introduce topics in statistics. Basically, this is a self-help book with great merit for those who want to review the subject and who want to see how to work through elementary problems.
Yes, there is and it is free to download. It is at: http://bookboon.com/en/applied-statistics/e-book
"Beautiful, but dangerous" is a very useful article by Robert Mathews that appeared in Significance Magazine, June 2016. Basically, it says that the normal distribution curve is beautiful, but dangerous. The Cauchy distribution curve can be a better model, due to its thicker tail. I suggest that we should start deemphasizing the normal curve in our college classes. Do you agree or not?
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