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 Statistics for Dummies May 13, 2007
L. Bishop (N.C. USA)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Book was very informative and easy to understand. However it did not discuss many of the concepts needed for my statistics class.
 Statistics for Dummies is the bomb July 26, 2006
Christopher I. Armstrong
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
I am very impressed with the Statistics for Dummies book. It is well written and really helped me grasp a basic understanding of statistics. The formulas that the author has provided are very helpful. The author really knows her stuff and has written a book that can help everyone understand the complex world of statistics.
 Good intro - clear but too repetitive June 8, 2006
wooks (uk)
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
Definitely does the job it sets out to do but could have done it without so much repetition hence only gets 3 stars.
 Not the college refresher I'd hoped for May 31, 2006
T. Murphy (Philly, PA USA)
58 out of 61 found this review helpful
This book covers material that would be found in the early to mid-level phases of a college Statistics course. I was hoping for a deeper refresher, short of re-reading my college texts and notes, and this wasn't the place to find it.
Nonetheless, there are positives worth considering. This book spends a good amount of time discussing normal distributions, the errors encountered in sampling a population, and the testing of hypotheses based on sample statistics. In particular, the explanations for using a Z-distribution or t-distribution were much clearer than any I'd ever read in several university texts. In fact, the textual descriptions are among the most valuable portions of the book, in part because the quantitative portions are scarce.
On the bad side, waaay too much space is devoted to public surveys and the confidence you should or should not place in them. Those chapters could have been condensed into a single entry, and the repeated examples of misleading or incorrect statistical measures were not necessary. There's also virtually nothing on probabilities, the study of which is usually linked to statistics in the introductory courses.
There's simply not enough valuable material to make this a good choice for college prep or refresher material, and as an introductory text, you'll find better alternatives as well.
statistics from the root March 14, 2006
Luis Miguel Muniz Menendez (Alcala de Henares, Spain)
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
This text is a wonderful introductory work to the terms and reasoning used in statistical analysis, but it also provides something most books on statistics lack: the ability to explain in simple, clear words which tests are available, when to use them and WHY to use them as compared to one another. It's entertaining to read, easy to understand and excites the interest for further exploration of the subject, which is probably the best thing a book can do.
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