Recommend a statistics fundamentals book To give you some background, I have a grasp on the basics of statistics and probability theory and even remember touching Bayes theorem at the university data mining course. But being a few years away from the university made my math got extremely rusty (so much for last-minute pre-exam cramming). While I remember various random basic concepts, there are a lot of gaps in my understanding of them.
What would be a good material (a book, a site, or otherwise equally accessible medium) to revise the fundamentals and go beyond basics? I'd like a book that can be actually read as a book (most statistics books are really dry and are close to being reference material, rather than a book).
 A: Alex i recommend you these two books:


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*Introduction to Probability by Sheldon Ross

*An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications: William Feller
Both are very good books for an introductory level and the second one is a classic. It's referred by many people.
A: Freedman, Pisani and Purves, Statistics, followed by Freedman, Statistical Models.
A: Many people recommend the book All of Statistics: A Concise Course in Statistical Inference by Wasserman.  
A: Here is good collection of books for statistics and probability. But the point you make is a valid one. To maintain interest you really don't want a "dry" book, but something that gets into just enough excited to pursue the subject more. hth.
A: Here is one that is used to get future and present students of financial engineering up to statistical speed: R. Dimitric: Mathematics for Financial Engineering. Can find it for instance on Amazon
A: For an interesting book, why not try 50 challenging problems in probability by Mosteller?  That might be the book you're looking for. Somebody has already mentioned Feller, but that is too much for bedtime reading. 
