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  <title><![CDATA[Statistics Without Tears (Penguin Science)]]></title>
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    <body><![CDATA[The mathematics of most college-level statistics courses is trivial. It is the conceptual stuff (e.g., sampling distributions, hypothesis testing, significance) which earns the subject the label &quot;sadistics&quot;.<br/><br/>In this concise, non-mathematical introduction to statistics, Rowntree ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60445478">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I locked myself in my apartment and read this book one weekend. It made statistics more concrete, clear, and less nebulous. Thanks to this book and some exceptional stats instructors, I now enjoy stats. It is nearly impossible to write a good statistics book. I have seen numerous terrible ones. This...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6457627">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was pretty good and cleared up alot of statistical principles for me. It was definitely not a &quot;fun&quot; read for me, but I like how Rowntree used examples with all sorts of things, like gnomes.. to try and lighten the tone.]]></body>
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