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Statistics for Business and Economics and Student CD (6th Edition)
by Paul Newbold, William L. Carlson, Betty Thorne
from Prentice Hall

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• A very confusing book
  I really have to warn everybody of this book! This book confuses me. This is the prescribed text for my first year subject. Maybe I am not senior enough to give comment on this book. Everytime I read this book, it confuses me somemore! If you have a choice, don't buy this book. If you are really serious in studying and not just buying an expensive book for display, don't ever buy this book.

• Statistics for Business and Economics
  This book is fairly comprehensive covering all the major topics that a student would need for the statistics modules in various business courses. Managers need to have an understanding of statistics so that they are able to manipulate the numerous masses of data that come their way into meaningful and useful information that they can employ in making business decisions.
  The author presented the material in the book in a simple and clear manner without any complicated algebra, making it readable by... more info

• Definitely leaf through it before deciding to buy
  I'm an MBA student in a top5 business school in the US, and we use this as our textbook for the basic stats course. I've only read the first 5 chapters so far, and I've found this book to be one of the worst textbooks I've seen since college. Some very simple concepts are explained in very confused (and confusing) language, the text is very arid and skips over most of the conceptual subtleties or fallacies that the unsuspecting user of statistical data may easily fall victim to. I strongly suggest leafing... more info

• Rock-solid textbook for non-math majors
  I used this book for my MBA statistics class recently. This book is very well written in a clear way, not meant to be fancy but to provide a comprehensive coverage of most, if not all, relevant topics. I also belive that the coverage depth of each topic is adequate enough to satisfy all common business and economics applications.

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