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Statistics, 4th Edition
by David Freedman, Robert Pisani, Roger Purves
from W. W. Norton

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Excellent Introductory Text
  After having progressed through the first 11 chapters of this text, I feel that this text has easily become one of my favorites.
  The text uses various real-life case studies (some examples that come to mind are height and weight, IQ, and drug studies) that it will revisit throughout the text. They are, more often than not, interesting and help underscore the practicality of statistics. You cannot go more than several paragraphs without getting involved in a case study.
  Although this text is not... more info

• A famous edition
  A famous edition of an old standard for stats and I gave this to someone as a gift but knew of it and was told by him that it is still one of the best books on the subject matter.

• great for a first course to non-statistics majors
  Many introductory statistics texts suffer from one of two ailments. Either they incorporate too much mathematics for non-statisticians or they provide oversimplified and sometimes incorrect explanations. This text is excellent and is favored by many statisticians who teach the introductory service course for non-statistics majors. The book provides excellent and insightful explanations. It is written by well-known Berkeley statisticians with great theoretical and applied experience, so it is not... more info

• Math can be fun! :-)
  I generally agree with what others are saying. What's so unique about this book is that... get this: you'll get one of those rare math textbooks that are *fun* to read. Well... in a nerdy sense. I wish it was updated more recently though, because most of the samples use data back from 70s or early 90s at best, which, of course, does not make the book less correct or helpful.
  I am re-learning some of my school classes (graduated with BS in Applied Math in 98) and I wish I saw this book when I took... more info

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