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 Trash -- utter trash. April 15, 2007
Steven Hess (California)
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
I am saddened to see the textbook community to mistake color, flash, graphics, and artifical examples as quality textbook. Although I understand they need to market, this book demonstrates the effect of marketing upon education.
My students complain that the text is difficult to read. Although I know they are new, I have to agree with their opinion. I sat and read the text -- and found it lacking respectable composition and clarity. I feel for my students and will not use the text again.
In addition, the examples are useless. They match the homework at the end of the chapter, but only "teach to the test". What's the point if the student don't learn methods on how to critically think and approach problems? Oh wow, they know what P(Z>1) is, but what do they know to do with it? Nothing!
Perhaps it is time for the educational community to produce their own compact books, customized to what students (and not publishers) need. I cannot recommend this book for anyone and would beg you to reconsider.
 Does the trick March 20, 2007
K.Read (Los Angeles, CA USA)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
I think it's a well written book and it simplifies concepts well enough so that you can understand them better.
 Really good book for a basic course! January 3, 2007
Frank Heilig
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I purchased this book for a basic statistic course. It's easy to understand and the best way to get an idea of statistic without long formulas or derivations. Recommandable for basic and intermediate stat-classes!
A very good choice for a text in basic statistics December 21, 2006
Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States(cashbacher@yahoo.com))
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
I regularly teach a course in basic statistics at the college level. In that capacity, I examined this book for possible adoption as the text for the course. In terms of the breadth of coverage, it is broader than most other texts. There are three chapters:
*) Nonparametric statistics
*) Statistical process control
*) Projects, procedures, perspectives
covering material not normally found in other texts. The depth of the coverage is also a little deeper than in most other texts, as a consequence the book is nearly 900 pages. Explanations of the topics are clear, diagrams are used when needed but not to excess. There are many exercises at the ends of the chapters, with solutions to the odds in an appendix.
The exercises at the end of the chapters are in several forms. They are:
*) Basic skills and concepts
*) Beyond the basics, with the subcategories
*) Review
*) Statistical literacy and critical thinking
*) Review exercises
*) Cumulative review exercises
*) Cooperative group activities
*) Technology project
*) Internet project
Each chapter starts with a basic question, some examples are:
*) Chapter 7 Estimates and sample size. Question: Does touch therapy work?
*) Chapter 8 Hypothesis testing. Question: What is the best way to go about finding a job?
There is also a statistics@work blurb at the end of each chapter. It is a one-page interview of a person who uses statistics in their job.
I was impressed with this book; there is no question in my mind that it would work very well in the statistics class that I teach. However, I am also satisfied with the book that I am using, so I will not be making the switch. While it is better than the book I am using now it is just not that much better to justify the change.
What A Savings to Me!!! November 23, 2006
X. Reynolds
1 out of 11 found this review helpful
When I furst purchased this book at my local bookstore, I coud not believe that the cost surpassed $100. After returning it and buying a used copy on amazon, I could not believe the condition it was in. It was "like new" just as my seller claimed it to be.
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