Statistics Demystified |  | Authors: Stan Gibilisco, Stan Gibilisco
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
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ISBN: 0071431187
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Publication Date: July 1, 2004
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Popular science/hobbyist writer Stan Gibilisco covers every important aspect of basic (algebra-based) statistics, including: notation and jargon, describing, tables, graphs, randomness and uncertainty, probability principles, distributions, obtaining and interpreting data, correlation, causation, and more. You'll be able to learn more in less time, evaluate your areas of strength and weakness and reinforce your knowledge and confidence.
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 Great Book. October 13, 2009
B7 (Los Angeles)
This is the best book I have read on statistics. It is very easy to understand, yet explains the concepts enough so that I felt like I had learned quite a bit. It is well written and clear.
A good book for review but...... May 21, 2009
John
I just completed a year of graduate level Bio-stats. I thought this book would be a good way to cement the concepts I have learned in my long term memory. First, I would say that any review is helpful and this book is helpful. I commend the author for putting together a book of this kind.
That said, I have some problems with this book. After a few chapters I decided to check out the author's credentials. It seems he published multiple books on electronics. The biggest downfall of this book is the authors excessive use of radio frequencies and similar themes for examples. If that kind of subject matter works for you than it will be a great book. Also, the author uses many different symbols from what I was taught. This is not the worst problem in the world but it is a detraction.
All in all I gave this book a 3 stars, I feel it is bit generous but there aren't any others out there.
Statistics Too Demystified to be Useful November 11, 2008
The Agnostic Apatheist (New York, NY)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought the book to review basic statistics for a particular project I am working on for my job. It's been over 15 years since I last looked at a stats book. Most of the book is easy to follow. But it doesn't go into much detail. Let's just say it was too demystified to be useful for me. That is, the book was written too general and at such an aerial view that I needed to purchase an actual statistics textbook to obtain more examples and problems to better understand certain concepts.
I won't say it's bad, but it's not a self-teaching guide, as it states on the cover. In order to be a self-teaching guide and still "demystified", it should be written in a comprehensible language (which it was) but with sufficient detail and rigor to replace a standard school textbook (which it did not do).
 Good For Only The Very Basics October 23, 2008
Douglas P. Murphy (Charlottesville)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book basically succeeds in what it tries to offer: an introduction to statistics that would be understandable to someone without any prior training in statistics. It covers all the basic concepts, starting with the building blocks. However, if your goal is somewhat more ambitious and you want to either understand statistics such as is found in even the more elementary scientific articles or apply statistics in a useful fashion, then this book will not get you too far. This book should really be offered as an introduction to the next, intermediate step. Most of the statistics one encounters are more advanced than what is in this book.
 Two errors, at least October 6, 2007
Steven Conover
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
If anyone knowledgeable in statistics proofread this book, they missed at least two errors. (The book contained no information about how to email or phone the author or the publisher about this, hence this review.)
(1) On page 76 and 78, under "Three nondisjoint outcomes," the stated solution is incorrect; the probability of all three occurring simultaneously should be added to, not subtracted from, the union of all three minus the three intersections. The text should be corrected, as should solution 3-3 on pages 78-79. I didn't check the test, but I suspect it is in error as well.
(2) On page 178, the explanations of Type I and Type II errors are incorrect. The text says "One form of error involves rejecting or denying the potential truth of a null hypothesis, then having the experiment end up demonstrating that the null hypothesis is true after all. This is sometimes called a type-1 error." However, a type-1 error is when the experiment itself says "reject the hypothesis" when in fact the hidden reality is that the hypothesis is true. (The explanation for the type-2 error is similarly flawed.)
After discovering the second error, I started looking for a way to alert the author or publisher via email or phone; no luck. Not sure if there are any other errors; I moved on to a different book.
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