Introduction to the Practice of Statistics (Introduction to the Practice of Statistics, 3rd Ed)

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Summary: poorly written text
Review: This text is horrible for learning statistics. Please, instructors, choose something different. This text takes concepts that could be quite simple and explains them so badly they become unrecognizeable. As a student, you have to really dig through the text to extract the basic ideas. If you read each chapter a few times, you eventually realize what they're saying, and it's not difficult at all - they've just made it that way. Exactly what you don't want in an introductory text. There are many good problems to work through, but that is the only real strength of the book. I was interested in statistics before I met this book.