The Complete Idiot's Guide to Statistics, 2nd Edition |  | Author: Jr., Ph.D., Robert A. Donnelly
Publisher: Alpha
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Edition: 2
Pages: 416
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.3 x 1.4
ISBN: 1592576346
Dewey Decimal Number: 519.5
EAN: 9781592576340
ASIN: 1592576346
Publication Date: May 1, 2007
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Not a numbers person? No problem!
This new edition is aimed at high school and college students who need to take statistics to fulfill a degree requirement and follows a standard statistics curriculum. Readers will find information on frequency distributions; mean, median, and mode; range, variance, and standard deviation; probability; and more. —Emphasizes Microsoft Excel for number-crunching and computations
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 A Great, Helpful Guide June 30, 2009
M. Yi
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For me, this book was really, really helpful.
Let me outline a few things that I found great about this book:
1) The non-boring way that the author incorporates statistics into every day life. It gives a personal feel and doesn't make you fall asleep!
2) Unbelievably, the glossary! It's nice to review.
3) Excel complements, so that you can actually be practical and learn statistics with a computer as well as by hand.
4) Great organization! It's very easy to follow.
5) Difficulty level of learning is low, but the difficulty level of the material is fairly high. You learn lots of things with half the effort.
There are also, at the ends of each chapter, practice questions that really help out. Once you're through all of them, and there aren't THAT many, you memorize everything in the chapter without having to physically (or mentally) memorize them.
Great book! I highly recommend it.
A true lifesaver June 8, 2009
Midian (Chicago)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Last semester, I had the bad luck to get stuck in a statistics class taught by a nice, but thoroughly incompetent, professor. I seriously believed I was going to either have to drop the class or risk failing it, because nothing that was taught to us made any sense (and our textbook was an abysmal failure too). In desperation I sought out alternative sources of information, and came across this book. It managed to transform the disastrous notes I had into something coherent. I relied heavily on this book over the instruction and text, and managed to achieve an "A" in a class that was otherwise doomed to a "C" at best. The book unfortunately doesn't cover 2-way ANOVA or non-parametric testing, but if the author (hint hint) were to write a follow-up stat book covering more advanced topics, you can be sure I'd purchase it.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Statistics, 2nd Edition May 1, 2009
Marleen Greenleaf (Fort Washington, MD)
This is an absolute must read for beginning students of Statistics. I highly recommend it.
Could not have passed the class without this book March 3, 2009
D. Martin (Bonham, Texas)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
At UOP we have parts 1 and 2 of this class. I struggled with the first one and when the second part of this class started the instructor recommended this book. I WISH I'd known about it for the first part! If you know of anyone who will be taking this class get this book. It breaks things down and explains it in such a way as to get a clear understanding of WHAT you are doing and WHY you are doing it. Because of this book I ended up pulling a higher grade out the second part of this class than the first.
Solid book on basic statistical concepts February 5, 2009
M. Guzowski
I have just finished reading this book and I must say that it was a breath of fresh air. I needed a review of basic statistical concepts and the book was remarkably clearly written.
I wish I had a similar book during my undergraduate years and I wish there was a similar book for non-parametric statistics.
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