I just read yesterday a book on Non-parametric Statistics: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/047045461X/ref=oss_T15_product" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/047045461X/ref=oss_T15_prod...</a><p>I found this useful and interesting, because a great deal of social phenomena are not normally distributed (do not fit a Gaussian bell-curve distribution, regardless of the size of the sample).<p>I am interested in learning more about non-parametric statistics, and statistics using alternative distributions (e.g. stable distributions, power laws, etc.).  Does anyone have good references for this kind of statistics (preferably written in English as opposed to jargon)?