|  | Author: Prem S. Mann
Publisher: Wiley
Buy Used: $23.99
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Seller: Best Looks Books
Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 55541
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 6
Pages: 784
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.5
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.7 x 1.1
ISBN: 0471755303
Dewey Decimal Number: 519.5
EAN: 9780471755302
ASIN: 0471755303
Publication Date: February 17, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Book in "LIKE NEW" condition BUT HAS ONE CORNER A BIT WORN. NO HI-LIGHTING
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 No solutions to the exercises is a fatal flaw September 26, 2006
Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States(cashbacher@yahoo.com))
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have taught a basic statistics class many times over the last several years and the book that I used was "The Basic Practice of Statistics" by David S. Moore. Since I am always on the lookout for a better book, I examined this one. One positive feature was immediately obvious. This book was easier to read. Some of that may be due to the fact that it is approximately ¾ of an inch longer than the Moore book. It is also due to sharper contrasts and more effective use of color.
The coverage is standard; there are plenty of exercises although the authors commit what I consider to be a cardinal sin. There are no solutions to any of the exercises. In my mind, this is inexcusable, even if they are available on a companion website. Students work problems in many different locations and web access is often inconvenient and sometimes just impossible.
Sections on using the TI-84, Minitab and Microsoft Excel are included at the end of the chapters. While some people will find them helpful, they are in no means in the tutorial category. Devoting a page and a half to brief visual demonstrations of how to do one problem is to me a waste of paper and ink. My students would require more significant instruction if we were ever to use any of these options.
While the other features are strong, the lack of solutions to the exercises is an insurmountable hurdle to me. I will not be adopting it for use in the future. In my opinion, it would have been a better use of pages to include solutions to the exercises rather than the small sections on how to use technology.
 An easy to comprehend introduction to statistics March 3, 2006
Dmitry Solodov (Philadelphia, PA)
I used this book as a primary source for my MBA course in statistics and found the book easy to comprehend and well written. In my opition, the book targets a reader who can devote time required to move from section to section to uncover the facinating coverage of the non-trivial subject of statistics and to work on examples. I highly recommend the book to those who want to grain strong comprehension of the basic statistics.
Excellent Introductory Text April 8, 2004
Stephen Hess (West Chester, PA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This text provides a thorough introduction to the use of mathematical statistics. Carefully reading the text and solving a reasonable number of the problems will provide one with the capability to apply statistical techniques to analyze data and draw conclusions in real applications. The book is strong on examples but light on theory. Particulary noteworhty is the inclusion of several topics (such as Monte Carlo methods and Bayesian decision theory) that typically are not covered in an introductory presentation. Also useful are the end of chapter "Final Challenges" that require the reader to have mastered the material. If one's objective is to apply statistics to draw appropriate inferences and make decisions, this text will provide the reader with the required tools.
 Our class struggled with this one... December 20, 2003
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Admittedly, statistics is a challenging subject, but if it's well taught, smart and conscientious students will grasp it. Part of teaching it well calls for a textbook that understands students' needs and abilities, and can lead them systematically from where they are to higher levels of understanding and ability. For my money, Wonnacott & Wonnacott's Introductory Statistics is a clumsy effort in this respect. There isn't enough explanation of new concepts. The graphics and layout aren't very appealing. The examples weren't that useful for our class of social science majors. And each chapter is interrupted repeatedly with practice questions, which get in the way of building on concepts and maintaining a flow. As one other suffering student remarks here, you do a lot of flipping back and forth. OK, so statistics is hard; but this text makes it more difficult than it has to be, and less interesting than it can be. I speak not just for myself: this fall I was in a graduate class of bright, able, hard-working people, and many of them were having a very rough time of it. Something's wrong pedagogically when that happens. Let me recommend an alternative text--Minium, Clarke, & Coladarci's "Elements of Statistical Reasoning," second edition. I used this text four years ago in another intro class taught by Coladarci himself. He's a very talented educator, and he got a classroom full of math-anxious students through some very challenging stuff. Don't take my word for it, though. Check out the reviews on Amazon. They're deservedly very positive. I found myself going back to that book throughout this past semester whenever I was in deep water with Wonnacott and Wonnacott. Once again it pulled me through.
Why do these same reviews turn up in Wonnacott? September 19, 2003
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
It is very curious that the same customer reviews for the Mann Introductory Statistics textbook also appear, verbatim, on the page for Wonnacott and Wonnacott 's Introductory Statistics. What gives, Amazon? I personally haven't looked at Mann, so I am not reviewing it...only commenting on the apparent crossed wires somewhere in the Amazon database.
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