| |  | Author: Shin Takahashi
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 4605678
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Library Binding
Edition: Reprint
Pages: 215
ISBN: 1439587965
Dewey Decimal Number: 519.5
EAN: 9781439587966
ASIN: 1439587965
Publication Date: April 9, 2009
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 A Gentle, FUN & Practical Guide to Statistics December 11, 2008
Ira Laefsky (Philadelphia, PA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This excellent, fun and gentle tutorial in Statistics will alleviate the anxiety of business and social science students who are required to take a Statistical Methods course but were always afraid of Mathematics. It encourages the reader to sit back, enjoy the story, and follow along with the solution to real world problems. It is more extensive than most introductions to the field but requires less concentrated effort than others. Finally, it has the excellent sense to offer solutions in Microsoft Office Excel, which will be available to students and professionals in almost any academic or commercial environment. In leading us by the hand through solving realistic problems it allows gentle learning, while not giving a false impression that all can be absorbed without any effort. Altogether a fun guide, or refresher to anyone who needs statistical competence in their work or education.
--Ira Laefsky
 Stats + Manga = Intellectual Cuteness December 7, 2008
Aspi Havewala (Chicago, IL USA)
It's not unusual to try and create an accessible way to learn about a notably dry subject. But uniting the cuteness of Manga with a topic like Statistics is fairly unique.
This book works well because it playfully goes through topics like Means, Standard Deviations, Categorical Data, Normalization, Deviation, Probability and Hypothesis.
And there is Manga - a lot of it. Told in comic book form, Takahashi makes judicious use of the clean lines, heightened emotions and general cuteness of Manga to put an adorable spin on Statistics.
got my son to read November 29, 2008
Deborah A. Chernick (Holland , PA)
5 out of 7 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.
A great primer to get ready for statistics I want to get all the manga ones now! November 26, 2008
josheeg (ny, usa)
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.
another cartoon book guiding students in elementary statistics November 18, 2008
Michael R. Chernick (Holland PA)
18 out of 18 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 junior. 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, calculus, microbiology and databases! Unfortunately this one is the first to come out and the others won't appear until later in 2009.
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