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 This is a MUST BUY!!! March 5, 2006
Sue H. Hutchinson (Jonesboro, Georgia)
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
As an early elementary education undergraduate in the late 70's, I was not required to take a statistics course. Now that I have raised my family, have earned my masters degree and am working on my doctorate, I came to realize how much I did not know about statistics. I also came to realize how much I would NEED to KNOW about them.
After reading my one chapter on the basics of statistics in Gall, Gall, and Borg "Educational Research," I panicked. I ran up a bookstore (sorry Amazon, I needed it immediately) and found your book. It has provided me with a solid foundation so that I now
can go back to Gall, Gall, and Borg without feeling like I am lost.
The funniest thing happened in my online discussion. I mentioned that I had purchased your book to help me. One other class member mentioned that he purchased it before the course started because he had read ahead in the syllabus, and another student asked me for the ISBN number so she could order it.. :)
Thanks again!
Statistics for Dummies February 16, 2006
Gary Kish
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
This text has been of immeasurable help in the basic understanding of medical literature, which can vary tremendously.
After the initial read, I have used the book as a guide when I have questions on a particular article's "claims".
When Dr. Rumsey comes out with her second edition, a larger section of problems with solutions will be well received.
Statistics for Dummies is a great book February 6, 2006
K. Levey (warren, nj United States)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Deborah Rumsey did a great job presenting and explaining many statistical methods in an understandable way. Starting with basic studies and working up to some more complex methods the auther used many helpful examples.
 Fights statistics illiteracy - but doesn't teach statistics (enough) January 30, 2006
Couder (Belgium)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book amply warns against the many pitfalls of applied statistics - and does so extremely well.
Unfortunately, the author does a poor job explaining the fundamentals of statistics. Although she discusses items like deviation, sample deviation and standard error, the reader is left at a loss how they all fit together. We do not get a coherent view of the basics of statistics! Her obsession to turn every chapter into an "autonomous" text is partly to blame, and doesn't really work because cross-references are all over the place (always a telltale sign of a badly structured text)
Apparently this book is aimed at the general audience, and its main purpose seems to be teaching 'the rest of us' "statistics literacy". For that I give the author 4 stars.
But as an introduction to statistics for the serious 'statistics student' this book fails.
perfect for getting the basics October 30, 2005
Chatwin (Berlin, Germany)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Cannot share the disappointment of some of the reviewers, even as non-native speaker, it is a perfect book to get a first understanding about the very basic of statistics - by the way, I found the examples brilliant as far as the simplicity is concerned
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