Customer Review: This book was my bible throughout the first statistics online class I have ever had. It guided me through the most complex stat problems. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has not ever had statistics before. It explains concepts in a clear, concise manner.
Customer Review: This was an extremely useful book for the understanding of Statistics and Econometrics. Each topic had examples to show how the formulas work. The computer chapter went over the programming in SAS, Excel, and Eviews for the problems in the book. Best of all, the problems had answers. This is a... more info
Customer Review: I had this book for an undergraduate Introduction to Statistics class and it was absolutely horrible.
The book was written by statistician for statistician, not for an undergrad who just started studying Statistics. My class studied only 10 chapters out of 18. Each chapter has about 10... more info
Customer Review: This is a horrible text book. It was written dreadfully. It's as if the author actually wants you to not understand the material. I am a former educator and current grad student and I have never come across such a bad text book. I am astounded. You'll need a team of tutors to use this book.
Customer Review: It would be helpful to allow a consumer to know the difference of standard mail and expedited delivery. We thought of standard delivery as 3-5 days and expedited to be overnight. You are not told until you choose which delivery method and that is when you've already indicated your preference. I... more info
Customer Review: I had to use this text for my Stat Theory classes. This book is very frustrating in that it fails to mention some very useful theorems. Example: A problem from Ch. 3 asks: If Y is a random variable with moment-generating function m(t), and if W is given by W = aY + b, show that the m.g.f. of W is... more info