Customer Reviews:
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 As much as I hate to break the sisterhood bond--- October 25, 2005
N. Kobrowski (Westfield, IN USA)
12 out of 20 found this review helpful
This book was not meaningful in my opinion. I am working toward my doctoral degree and I have a hard time with statistics. I wanted something that went beyond "Making Sense of Statistics" but this isn't it.
The author doesn't go into more advanced statistics, although she obviously has expertise in this area. Many of the examples are more for someone who just wants to be able to read stats versus actually calculating them.
This was a waste of money.
 Excellent book October 22, 2005
Student Reviewer
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I was doing terrible in my stats class until I got this book. It really helped me understand how to do things and helped me see what I had been doing wrong. I got this as well as the workbook and between the two, I was able to make it through my class just fine. I highly recommend both this and statistics workbook for dummies.
 Statisics for Dummies October 2, 2005
TV Crime Writer (Sun Valley, CA USA)
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
This was just an ok book. It doesn't cover the basic, basic elements of statistics like variables - what are they and how to differentiate between Nominal, Ordinal and Interval-Ratio variables.
 Very Readable September 20, 2005
Joe Recchi (Bothell, WA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
A interesting, even entertaining, treatment of what could be a dry and/or complex subject.
If you have even a passing interest in the subject, this book is well worth your time and money.
Best stats book I could find July 26, 2005
Stewart Snider (Austin, TX USA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book is well organized, contains meaningful examples, explains concepts in conversational English, and shows step-by-step how to work problems. You can go to any chapter and start reading -- all concepts not pertaining to that chapter are carefully referenced.
The author's patience, kindness and humor are evident in her examples of how stats permeate our everyday lives. I ended up thinking this would be a fun person to hang out with - not exactly what I expected of an author of a book on statistics.
While shopping, I glanced through about a dozen stats books and had about 3 "maybes". Then I saw this one, and it was a slam-dunk. After a short time with it, I decided to remain in enrolled in a stats class I was about to drop.
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