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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 519.5 EAN: 9781592576340 Edition: 2 ISBN: 1592576346 Label: Alpha Manufacturer: Alpha Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: May 01, 2007 Publisher: Alpha Studio: Alpha Editorial Review: Product Description: Not a numbers person? No problem! 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - FINALLY!!!No mumbo jumbo or unnecessary jargon here. If you wanna get a solid foundation of statistics, this is your book. As an MBA student, I needed a book to help me understand my statistics course (some professors are unable to teach in plain English). The style is concise and clear and the examples very funny. I also like the exercises at the end of each chapter. The author usually gives 3 or 4 questions where you basically apply the formulas you just learnt in the chapter, and in the last question, once ... Read More Rating: - Fantastic supplement to my Statistics course bookMy textbook is called Statistics, Data Analysis, & Decision Modeling by James Evans, and I absolutely hate it. The writing is extremely technical and the subject matter is poorly handled. This Idiots Guide to Statistics has both great coverage of Statistics, but also gives information about Excel's relationship to Statistics that I desperately needed. I highly recommend this book. Rating: - Perfect for Getting the Idea of StatisticsIf you need to gain a general idea of statistics with all the necessary terms, formulas and calculations, look no further! Compared with my statistics curriculum, it contains everything I need to know for my graduate curriculum. So, whilst learning about statistics by ways of a very easy-to-understand-but-not-patronizing language, I'm also having a LOT of fun. My days of studying statistics are interrupted by laughter and smiles throughout the book. The author is a comedian, apart from a great teacher. ... Read More Rating:  - Statistics helpI am currently taking a biostats class. As with most other math text books, the text for this class is very dry and hard to read. I bought this book because I thought it may help me to understand the concepts better than the text - or at least make the text easier to follow, and it has been a great help. Rating: - Idiot's StatisticsBought for my husband, who needed to know statistics for his business management class. This was a helpful book. |
