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The Basic Practice of Statistics: (Text & Student CD)
The Basic Practice of Statistics has become a bestselling textbook by focusing on how statistics are gathered, analyzed, and applied to real problems and situations—and by confronting student anxieties about the course’s relevance and difficulties head on. With David Moore’s pioneering "data analysis" approach (emphasizing statistical thinking over computati...more
Hardcover, 704 pages
Published
January 15th 2009
by W. H. Freeman
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A very good textbook on statistics, though I think too much space is devoted towards theory. Building up to t-stats using z-values makes sense in theory, but I think my students found it more confusing than helpful. That said, it's the first textbook I've read that I actually enjoyed reading.
I'm going to be taking a class in statistics next fall so I thought I'd get a head start.
non-fiction,statistics
This book was easy to understand and the problems were never dry and always helpful. It is easy to see why this book is used in countless statistic classes around the country.
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