This bestseller will help you learn regression-analysis methods that you can apply to real-life problems. It highlights the role of the computer in contemporary statistics with numerous printouts and exercises that you can solve using the computer. The authors continue to emphasize model development, the intuitive logic and assumptions that underlie the techniques covered, the purposes, advantages, and disadvantages of the techniques, and valid interpretations of those techniques. Available with InfoTrac Student Collections http: //gocengage.com/infotrac.
This was possibly one of the worst written statistics books ever. Not that I'm an expert, but for $200 I expected a little more. Equations were thrown in and there was a serious expectation of math skill for a book designed for(?) and used in a class where the most background the majority of people had was in Intro to Biostatistics. I've heard that I'll get my investment back with re-reading this book over the years while I work on my dissertation. We'll see, we'll see....