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Summary: Best Undergraduate Statistics book available
Review: As an undergraduate and graduate statistics faculty, I have read and taught from many different statistics books (at least a dozen by a quick count). This book by Mason, et.al. is superior to all and far superior to many (including many texts used for graduate business statistics).It is clearly written, well organized, and does not use up a lot of space with massive amounts of output from statistics packages that one will not use outside of the classroom. I have recommended it many times to students as an alternate to the extant class textbook, for all of the graduate and undergraduate business statistics classes that I teach.
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Summary: Not a bad book
Review: First of all, I would like to say that this is not a bad book, but I personally found that many of the examples were a little hard to follow. I felt that in many cases steps seemed to be left out, and it was assumed that you would know how to get to these points in the examples that were shown in the book. Unfortunately in my case the professor teaching our statistics class really does not seem to care to follow the material in the book. He's not a bad buy, but I'm not so sure he should be teaching statistics. In addition we use Microsoft Excel and the Megastat add-in on some of the example problems. So what happens is that the answers I get vary depending on whether I follow the book, my professor, or the Megastat program. All of this adds up to massive confusion on my part, and on the part of my fellow classmates.
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Summary: Not a bad book
Review: First of all, I would like to say that this is not a bad book, but I personally found that many of the examples were a little hard to follow. I felt that in many cases steps seemed to be left out, and it was assumed that you would know how to get to these points in the examples that were shown in the book. Unfortunately in my case the professor teaching our statistics class really does not seem to care to follow the material in the book. He's not a bad buy, but I'm not so sure he should be teaching statistics. In addition we use Microsoft Excel and the Megastat add-in on some of the example problems. So what happens is that the answers I get vary depending on whether I follow the book, my professor, or the Megastat program. All of this adds up to massive confusion on my part, and on the part of my fellow classmates.
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Summary: Clearly the best for undergraduate students
Review: I have never been interested in reading a statistic textbook,simply because most of them are boring and totally confusing, but AIMR recommended this book as the official reading for year 1999. When I have a copy of this book for my study, I was surprised. The book explains many statistic concepts in clear, plain English without many confusing terms. It describes the concepts step by steps, coupled with many interesting examples. So far the best statistic textbook I've ever read. It is good for undergraduate, but I believe it is good for graduate students too.
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Summary: GOOD Stats book
Review: Many examples. The formulas were easily explainable and understandable. However, I had hoped that it would have provided additional uses on the calculator like the TI83 - but the CD that accompanies this book was well done to help you do additional excercises on excel. So I give this book 5 stars!
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Summary: Written by statisticians for statisticians, not under grads
Review: Positive aspects: Many examples for practice. Negative aspects: Definition of terms are too complex and require further explanation. Most definition of terms refer to terms defined in previous chapters. This causes far too much searching and flipping through pages looking for previously defined terms. Guaranteed headache in 2.5 minutes. Recommendation: Only read if you are a hard core statistician. I had to suffer through this book only because it was required reading for an undergraduate statistics class at the university I attend. My classmates and I have asked our instuctor to never use this book again for an undergraduate level class. Ten editions and they still can't get it right!
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Summary: Excellent Book!
Review: Reading this Book helps anyone understand all Basic Statistics; this allows continue with more advanced textbooks. I recommend it to all, who need to start up with essential statistics and need a friendly, introductory but very efficient approach!
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Summary: Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics with CD-Ro
Review: The major aim and goal of this textbook, i.e., Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics with CD-Romby Douglas A. Lind is to help and assist you in developing an understanding of the skills needed for future success in marketing, accounting, management, finance, and other fields of business administration and economics.
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Summary: Good review of statistics and how it works in real life
Review: The only complaint that I have is that it either could have used more examples or have a better explaination of the examples given. But about 7.5-8 times out of 10, it was right on the mark.
This is assuming this may be used for an undergraduate program.
But if this book was used for a Master's program, I used this book for a Applied Managerial Business Decision Making, CTUonline.edu Master's level class. So I guess the book actually does more of a review of statistics with examples of how it applies in the real business world.
If you are in an undergraduate program, your school may accept credit by examination. You may possibly be able to test out of your statistics requirement. Go to http://www.1yearba.com for more information.
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Summary: The Paperback, International Ed. is Great
Review: The paperback international edition is the best deal out there! It will save you a load of cash and is EXACTLY the same content wise as the hardback USA edition. As far as the quality of the textbook goes I'm not exactly a math minded person and this book seems to explain stuff fairly well or at least as good as Quantitative Methods can be explained.
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