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Statistics 
        Every Writer Should KnowInformation written by L.A. Times' journalist Robert Niles is geared toward 
        fellow journalists and other liberal-arts types who avoided anything mathematical, 
        and statistics in particular, at school but now find they need a basic 
        understanding of statistics that's not too technical.
 HyperStat 
        OnlineThe main offering at this site is the HyperStat Online Textbook, an introductory 
        guide to statistics, but many other resources make it worth a visit, including 
        book reviews, statistics link resources, and an online forum for users 
        of the textbook. Sadly, the links to statistics jokes no longer flourish 
        as they once did
 SmartDrill® 
        Data MiningProvides a number of explanatory sections for data mining novices, including 
        case studies, white papers and a nontechnical overview of various methods 
        for analyzing data, working from the simplest techniques through increasingly 
        sophisticated methods, pointing out the strengths and limitations of each.
 Statistical 
        Data Mining TutorialsA list of PowerPoint Tutorials written by Andrew Moore, a professor of 
        Robotics and Computer Science at the School of Computer Science, Carnegie 
        Mellon University. The tutorials focus on many aspects of statistical 
        data mining, including the foundations of probability, the foundations 
        of statistical data analysis, and most of the classic machine learning 
        and data mining algorithms. Some of the topics include, Decision trees, 
        Probability for Data miners, gaussian bayes classifiers, and regression 
        algorithms.
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