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Statistics Demystified
by Stan Gibilisco
from McGraw-Hill Professional
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 
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Statistics Too Demystified to be Useful
I bought the book to review basic statistics for a particular project I am working on for my job. It's been over 15 years since I last looked at a stats book. Most of the book is easy to follow. But it doesn't go into much detail. Let's just say it was too demystified to be useful for me. That is, the book was written too general and at such an aerial view that I needed to purchase an actual statistics textbook to obtain more examples and problems to better understand certain concepts.
I won't say it's... more info
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Good For Only The Very Basics 
This book basically succeeds in what it tries to offer: an introduction to statistics that would be understandable to someone without any prior training in statistics. It covers all the basic concepts, starting with the building blocks. However, if your goal is somewhat more ambitious and you want to either understand statistics such as is found in even the more elementary scientific articles or apply statistics in a useful fashion, then this book will not get you too far. This book should really be offered... more info
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Two errors, at least 
If anyone knowledgeable in statistics proofread this book, they missed at least two errors. (The book contained no information about how to email or phone the author or the publisher about this, hence this review.)
(1) On page 76 and 78, under "Three nondisjoint outcomes," the stated solution is incorrect; the probability of all three occurring simultaneously should be added to, not subtracted from, the union of all three minus the three intersections. The text should be corrected, as should solution... more info
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Not written for mathphobes 
You would think a book that purports to "demystify" statistics would be written for people who are math-phobic. This book really isn't. It describes mathmatical ideas with formulas and not with plain english.
It's basically just a stats text book.
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