- ISBN13: 9781592576340
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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This new edition is aimed at high school and college students who need to take statistics to fulfill a degree requirement and follows a standard statistics curriculum. Readers will find information on frequency distributions; mean, median, and mode; range, variance, and standard deviation; probability; and more. —Emphasizes Microsoft Excel for number-crunching and computations… More >>
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Statistics, 2nd Edition
This book followed right along with my college text. I found the book pretty informative but I did find some of the examples that the author used a bit confusing.
Rating: 3 / 5
I bought this book as a resource to look up information I had forgotten from my statistics class years earlier. Not having time to read through the entire book, I found found it difficult to find the information I was looking for. The book is poorly indexed, and I had to manually sift through chapters (and snarky jokes by the author) to find formulas–a big waste of time! Unless this book will be used as a companion to a class, I wouldn’t bother buying it.
Rating: 3 / 5
I wanted an “easy” book to wade back into statisitics, but i was pleasantly
surprised how well conceived and well executed this intro is. Some of the
examples were a little narrative heavy,but the author does a good job of
staying on track and bringing home key concepts. I might have wished for
something abstract or academic, but judged on its own terms this book is
a complete success. Also, the idiot series has revised its graphic approach:
this book for the most part features a user friendly, understated layout.
Recommended.
Rating: 5 / 5
this is a great book – i love the “complete idiot’s” series in general, and they really broke down statistics for the beginner.
Rating: 4 / 5
This book is easily the best supplement to any Stats course. It doesn’t have advanced stats methods in it, but that’s only because it’s used to handle the absolute basics. I sincerely hope that the “Complete Idiot’s Guide” people hire this guy again to do a book with a little more depth to it (perhaps a calc-stats bridge to more advanced materials before modeling?) Fills in a lot of gaps that many advanced stats books take for granted.
Rating: 4 / 5