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Summary: Bring on the confusion and mistakes
Review: A worse textbook I have not seen. It's riddled with mistakes and misprints. The authors should be ashamed. The examples are virtually impossible to follow. Unfortunately, most students don't have a choice but if you do go with Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics (Mason, Lind & Marchal).
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Summary: Bring on the confusion and mistakes
Review: A worse textbook I have not seen. It's riddled with mistakes and misprints. The authors should be ashamed. The examples are virtually impossible to follow. Unfortunately, most students don't have a choice but if you do go with Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics (Mason, Lind & Marchal).
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Summary: Statistics for Managers Using Microsoft Excel
Review: As a [MBA]graduate student taking my second statistics class the book is tremendously easy reading but has multiple "typos" where answers are posted incorrectly in the back or not at all. The PH Stats disk has flaws that prevent it from executing certain histograms, Pareto charts and other activities. Once the "bugs" are worked out of the PH Stats CD, it will be useful. The CD does work well but, if you are not computer literate and cannot troubleshoot the issues, you could be more frustrated than you want. As for the text errors, be certain to purchase the Solutions Manual with the book so you can check, and obtain right answers, for a wider variety of problems. "2" is a reasonable rate for the content. The rest of the problems detract from the books overall objective.
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Summary: Statistics for Managers Using Microsoft Excel
Review: As a [MBA]graduate student taking my second statistics class the book is tremendously easy reading but has multiple "typos" where answers are posted incorrectly in the back or not at all. The PH Stats disk has flaws that prevent it from executing certain histograms, Pareto charts and other activities. Once the "bugs" are worked out of the PH Stats CD, it will be useful. The CD does work well but, if you are not computer literate and cannot troubleshoot the issues, you could be more frustrated than you want. As for the text errors, be certain to purchase the Solutions Manual with the book so you can check, and obtain right answers, for a wider variety of problems. "2" is a reasonable rate for the content. The rest of the problems detract from the books overall objective.
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Summary: Nothing to do with Excel or How To
Review: Don't let the title mislead you: Statistics for Managers Using Microsoft Excel (Student Solutions Manual) has almost nothing to do with Microsoft Excel. This book is useful IF and only if you are using it as a companion to the Statistics for Managers Using Microsoft Excel text book in a statistics class.The book provides ANSWERS. It does not provide any how-to; it does not provide any Excel formulas/etc. But is does provide the answers to all of the even-numbers problems in the companion text book. That's the only reason it got as much as a "3 stars" rating from me -- it was helpful for feedback.
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Summary: Great resource for beginning to intermediate stats
Review: I used this book in a first year MBA program and found it a great resource. Stat freaks complain that Excel is not SPSS - true! But many many more business people have access to Excel, along with a reasonable ability to do FAST basic statistics.
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Summary: Blech - lots of errors, poor writing
Review: I'm only through chapter 3, but I've found * inconsistancies - not using the same term in the same manner; all through the chapter, it refers to class boundaries, but in the excersizes, they are called bins - you have to check out the solutions manual and figure out what they are asking for. * circular definitions - using the term in the definition of the term you are describing (ie, frumious = being frumious) * poor examples - when describing how to use an excel wizard to process data, it tells you to select E5:E12 - without describing what this range is supposed to be (bins? midpoints? data?) * incorrect answers in the solution manual (some are right, some are not) * PHStat does not function as specified in the book in all cases (ie, percentage polygons) Frankly, the book is a big waste of cash, and should not be selected as a book to be used for statistics classes - unfortunately, neither the students nor the profs at the school I'm attending had a choice. I'm having a hard time believing this is a THIRD edition, with all the errors. Either the authors or the publishers can screw up on a first edition, but it takes an effort for both to do it, much less three times. Too bad you can't give negative star reviews.
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Summary: Blech - lots of errors, poor writing
Review: I'm only through chapter 3, but I've found * inconsistancies - not using the same term in the same manner; all through the chapter, it refers to class boundaries, but in the excersizes, they are called bins - you have to check out the solutions manual and figure out what they are asking for. * circular definitions - using the term in the definition of the term you are describing (ie, frumious = being frumious) * poor examples - when describing how to use an excel wizard to process data, it tells you to select E5:E12 - without describing what this range is supposed to be (bins? midpoints? data?) * incorrect answers in the solution manual (some are right, some are not) * PHStat does not function as specified in the book in all cases (ie, percentage polygons) Frankly, the book is a big waste of cash, and should not be selected as a book to be used for statistics classes - unfortunately, neither the students nor the profs at the school I'm attending had a choice. I'm having a hard time believing this is a THIRD edition, with all the errors. Either the authors or the publishers can screw up on a first edition, but it takes an effort for both to do it, much less three times. Too bad you can't give negative star reviews.
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Summary: Not bad, I guess...
Review: There is a newer edition out. However, the good thing about this one is the fact that they got a good Excel Section.
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Summary: Not bad, I guess...
Review: There is a newer edition out. However, the good thing about this one is the fact that they got a good Excel Section.
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