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The Manga Guide to Statistics

The Manga Guide to Statistics
Authors: Shin Takahashi, Trend-pro Ltd
Publisher: No Starch Press
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 reviews
Sales Rank: 20818

Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7 x 0.8

ISBN: 1593271891
Dewey Decimal Number: 519.5
EAN: 9781593271893
ASIN: 1593271891

Publication Date: November 28, 2008  (New: This Week)
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Product Description

Think you can't have fun learning statistics? Think again.

The Manga Guide to Statistics will teach you everything you need to know about this essential discipline, while entertaining you at the same time. With its unique combination of Japanese-style comics called manga and serious educational content, the EduManga format is already a hit in Japan.

In The Manga Guide to Statistics, our heroine Rui is determined to learn about statistics to impress the dreamy Mr. Igarashi and begs her father for a tutor. Soon she's spending her Saturdays with geeky, bespectacled Mr. Yamamoto, who patiently teaches her all about the fundamentals of statistics: topics like data categorization, averages, graphing, and standard deviation.

After all her studying, Rui is confident in her knowledge of statistics, including complex concepts like probability, coefficients of correlation, hypothesis tests, and tests of independence. But is it enough to impress her dream guy? Or maybe there's someone better, right in front of her?

Reluctant statistics students of all ages will enjoy learning along with Rui in this charming, easy-to-read guide, which uses real-world examples like teen magazine quizzes, bowling games, test scores, and ramen noodle prices. Examples, exercises, and answer keys help you follow along and check your work. An appendix showing how to perform statistics calculations in Microsoft Excel makes it easy to put Rui's lessons into practice.

This EduManga book is a translation from a bestselling series in Japan, co-published with Ohmsha, Ltd. of Tokyo, Japan.




Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars got my son to read   November 29, 2008
 5 out of 5 found this review helpful

My son Daniel takes after his dad and likes math and statistics. But to get him to read a book is like pulling teeth. But he does like Japanese cartoons and has read the Manga comics. So when we found this book in Barnes and Noble we decided to buy it for him. To my amazement he is reading and learning from it. My husband says that the statistics is done pretty well, almost as good as in the cartoon guide. Now we have order the other one in the series that will come out soon I hope. Dan is interested in the ones on math and science and databases that are next to come out!

Anything that gets my son to read and gets five stars from me.



5 out of 5 stars A great primer to get ready for statistics I want to get all the manga ones now!   November 26, 2008
A great primer to get ready for statistics I want to get all the manga ones now! The databases one sounds fun im allready almost certified in mysql but it could not hurt.

Now manga guuide to digital signal processing or brain machine interfaces that would be cool.



4 out of 5 stars another cartoon book guiding students in elementary statistics   November 18, 2008
 17 out of 17 found this review helpful

I loved "The Cartoon Guide to Statistics" because it was humorous very simply told and yet accurately taught. Some of the material is so good that I now use it in my introductory biostatistics course.

The Manga Guide to Statistics does similar things but a little differently. This book is in cartoon strip form and the characters are familiar to many kids who these days wacth the Japanese cartoons on television and read the comic books. This includes my son Daniel who is a high school sophomore. Dan hates to read but loves math and science and this is the first statistics book that intrigued him enough to read it! I know is reading it and enjoying learning from it by the questions he asks. So like the other cartoon book on statistics this too is a gentle introduction for those with math skills and those with an aversion to mathematics. It shows how statistics is practical by illustrating the techniques on everyday real world data, such as the scores of bowling team players at a bowling alley. It covers the basic summary statistics, correlation, hypothesis testing and probability distributions. What I found interesting was that in addition to the ordinary Pearson product moment correlation they also provided intra-class correlation and Cramer's V (for categorical data). These methods are rarely covered in elementary texts.

One thing it has that is missing in "The Cartoon Guide to Statistics" is the teaching of how to use the computer to apply what they learn. In the final chapter they do this using Excel and teaching things step by step using screen shots of excel spreadsheets.

Throughout the book when a new statistic is introduced they go through the step by step details of the calculations. This is something that student do not necessarily need to learn in the age of computers and statistical computer packages. However, going through the tedium of the calculations has a way of reinforcing the concepts and it gives the student a better understanding of exactly what a variance and a standard deviation are.

I recommend this book for high school students to supplement what they learn in class or for independent self-learning. College student with weak math backgrounds who need an introduction to statistics may also find this book useful and interesting. It is working wonders for Dan who now wants to get the soon to be published Manga guides to physics, czlculus, microbiology and databases! Unfortunately this one is the first to come out and the others won't appear until 2009.



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