Environmental Statistics with S-PLUS

Rating:
Summary: This is a terrible textbook!
Review: It's hard to know where to start...
1) The explanations of statistical concepts are not well organized. If you've never had statistics before, prepare to be confused. If you have had it before, prepare to be bored. There is no middle ground with this book.
2) Since this is really a book on how to use S-PLUS, there must be a lot of material about how S-PLUS works, right? WRONG! When the book begins to explain how to use S-PLUS, it is given in a plug-and-chug format. There is really no explanation of how the commands work, just a list of steps to give you the results or plots that are shown in the book. This book does not teach, it merely lists.
3) There are also a lot of inconsistencies in the book. There are "elementary" homework problems that are not possible to do because of the way S-PLUS is set up. Even one of the authors of the book (who happens to be my professor) doesn't know how to do them.

Overall, this book is definitely NOT worth the money.