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Summary: A readable intro to Statistics
Review: I liked this better than "Elementary Statistics" by Triola or "Elementary Statistics" by Bluman. Those two have more human interest sidebars, more color, and more fluff. They also require additional software and study guides to get the best from the book. Frank and Althoen are all business and their business is to get you to the point that you can do statistics and understand it. The authors do a nice job of presenting a mathematic subject. There are lots of examples, clearly worked out. The examples and student problems are with small enough data sets that you can work through them easily without getting lost in calculations. This book is 850 pages. black and white. self contained. no photos, no side bars, and just enough graphs and charts. It's full of text that is well crafted and gently pulls you along through a lot of statistical "Concepts and Applications". This book assumes you know algebra but not calculus.
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Summary: why aren't there more books like this one?
Review: This is one of the best introductory stats books I've seen. The authors are serious and passionate about statistics, and are indeed good writers. There is no fluff and unenecessary color photos (that many current texts are full of) - just serious college algebra-based statistics. Theoretical derivations can easily be omitted by those who don't need them. All the major topics are here. By the way, the book is available from the Cambridge University Press web site; I don't know why amazon.com does not keep it in stok.
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