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Summary: Excellent resource for the non-specialist practitioner
Review: During my professional life I was several times in the situation of having to do statistical analysis of some data. I also saw other colleagues struggle with the same situation and it seems that for someone without a formal training in statistics and a lot of practical experience this is a strange mixture of technical know-how, guess-work and pure superstition.
This is the book I've been looking for for years now, to learn how to do the job with a reasonable understanding of the choices involved and the assumptions that are made when using this or that tool. It is a wonderfully practical and clear exposition of the methods that are likely to be used by a practitioner to answer practical questions with the help of data - and definitely helps to avoid the uneasy feeling of having to apply some tool without really knowing what is going on.
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Summary: Crappy book
Review: Horrible, solution manual is a joke. I could have written a better book than this piece of garbage.
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Summary: Great Intro Level Statistics Book
Review: This is a great introductory statistics book, for students who are taking beginning level stats courses. The examples are cleary laid out and it's not too heavy on the theory.
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Summary: Crappy book
Review: This is a superb text for graduate students or advanced undergraduates. The case studies are excellent, and the approach is innovative. The strength of the book is its coverage of regression models (linear algebra not used - a weakness if you want to program in Matlab, but ok for SPSS). The examples are drawn from Ecology (esp. Island biogeography), Evolutionary biology, geochemistry, environmental policy, medicine and law. There is something of interest for even the most diverse audience.
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Summary: The Statistical Sleuth has it's good points...
Review: This unique book has it's good points. It attmepts to show how to use different types of statistical analyses work together and what order to use them in.However, it is poorly written. The authors will start to use terms and ideas that may or may not be defined two or ten pages later, or maybe in a following chapter and you're never quite sure if something will be explained or whether this is something you should already know. This makes for a slow and aggrevating read to the neophyte. Sometimes it seems like a concise statement of the subjects it addresses, but maybe only after you already have mastered them. If the authors reread the book with a fresh eye, it could be edited and rewritten into a real treasure. Excellent start
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