Basic Statistics for Business and Economics with Student CD-ROM

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Basic Statistics for Business and Economics with Student CD-ROM
by Douglas Lind, William Marchal, Samuel Wathen
from McGraw-Hill/Irwin

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• there are excellent, cheaper alternatives
  Take a look at www.coventry-collegiate.com. Understanding Business Statistics, the book featured there, is independently published and sells for only $39.95 (new). It is clear, extremely readable and very student-friendly.

• Review of Basic Statistics
  This is a well written and illustrated text book that describes the working of statistics. Definitions are placed in boxs within the text so the defination of a term is where you read the uses of the term. Review questions are also place within the text so the question follows the definition and explation of the statitistical information being taught. The book also uses web sites for information and examples, software programs such as Excel, to add to the learning experience. Included is a CD with power... more info

• Good Book but...
  Yes, put all the extra features together, namely the student CD and the Visual Statistics together, this seems like a well-put-together solution for a beginner statistics course. However, it needs some help. The book could be more thoroughly indexed. Visual Statistics software does not work properly even with updates. Sentence such as "The mean of the sampling distribution of the sample mean is obtained by summing the various sample means and dividing the sum by the number of samples" is not intuitive. This... more info

• introductory stats
  The book is essentially a standard introductory probability and statistics course, with an emphasis on the statistics. The business and economics in the title is mostly reflected in the examples given in the text, which have that orientation.
  There is also no emphasis on formal proving of various maths results. The typical reader is not expected to be a maths major, and probably does not need it.
  A useful feature is the CD that accompanies the book. It lets the reader easily use a computer to... more info

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