A book on highschool-level probability and statistics

[Ankel]

What is a fantastic book on probability&statistics that covers all the probability&statistics a student in high school ever need? It should cover the basics, and also the intermediate topics. Specifically, it must cover frequency distributions and whatnot.

Please lend me your suggestions.

 

[micromass]

Can the prerequisite knowledge include calculus or not?

 

[Ankel]

No. Like I said, I am just a high school student. It should require a knowledge of only some elementary algebra and other things that a high school student is expected to know. Also, I must add that the book must start out with the basics and later proceed onto the advanced topics. By the basics, I am talking about median/median/mode, cumulative frequency distributions, standard deviations, empirical probability formula, and other basic stuff like:

P(E) = number of favorable outcomes/number of possible outcomes

 

[Student100]

No. Like I said, I am just a high school student. It should require a knowledge of only some elementary algebra and other things that a high school student is expected to know. Also, I must add that the book must start out with the basics and later proceed onto the advanced topics. By the basics, I am talking about median/median/mode, cumulative frequency distributions, standard deviations, empirical probability formula, and other basic stuff like:

P(E) = number of favorable outcomes/number of possible outcomes

Do you understand summations?

 

[Ankel]

Somewhat, only in a very elementary manner.

 

[Student100]

Somewhat, only in a very elementary manner.

I wouldn't recommend looking at statistical books at this point in time for you. I would focus more on your high school algebra/calculus courses.

The most elementary book I know of personally is: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393970833/?tag=pfamazon01-20
You aren't going to make it through much of that book without a good handle on summations. Calculus is also suggested for some of the chapters.

There may not be any (decent) texts at your level.