Intro Stats [with DVD-ROM]

by Richard D. De Veaux, Paul F. Velleman, David E. Bock

KEY MESSAGE : Intro Stats, Third Edition , continues and extends the successful innovations pioneered in the DeVeaux/Velleman/Bock books, teaching statistics and statistical thinking for today's readers. This book uses a fun, conversational writing style, real data, and short, accessible chapters. The consistent Think/Show/Tell model for worked examples reinforces thinking about how to approach a statistics problem, showing how to solve it, and reporting the conclusion in the context of the problem. KEY TOPICS : Exploring and Understanding Data; Exploring Relationships between Variables; Gathering Data; Randomness and Probability; From the Data at Hand to the World At Large; Learning about the World; Inference When Variables are Related MARKET : For all readers interested in Statistics.

Genres: Nonfiction, Mathematics, Science, Textbooks

864 pages, Hardcover

First published June 9, 2003

Reviews

[Judy]

This is a really decent statistics textbook for an introductory course. It has de-emphasized the arduous calculations and focused instead on understanding and interpreting data and statistical methods. I'm teaching from it now at the local community college.

[James]

KEY MESSAGE: Intro Stats, Third Edition, continues and extends the successful innovations pioneered in the DeVeaux/Velleman/Bock books, teaching statistics and statistical thinking for today's readers. This book uses a fun, conversational writing style, real data, and short, accessible chapters. The consistent Think/Show/Tell model for worked examples reinforces thinking about how to approach a statistics problem, showing how to solve it, and reporting the conclusion in the context of the problem. KEY TOPICS: Exploring and Understanding Data; Exploring Relationships between Variables; Gathering Data; Randomness and Probability; From the Data at Hand to the World At Large; Learning about the World; Inference When Variables are Related MARKET: For all readers interested in Statistics.

[Kathleen]

Actually pretty readable and full of examples

[Karen Ford]

It did what it needed to but God I hate stats

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I read this book as part of a distance learning class at the University of Florida, a class I took at the same time as I took Anatomy & Physiology I and II, which use the book Anatomy and Physiology: From Science to Life. That book was so atrocious that it made reading this book almost leisure reading.

The book is funny, it has interesting anecdotes and was written clearly by teachers for whom the material had been tread many times. The design is impeccable, and you never feel like you are being attacked by text. You are also given clearly marked extra knowledge which I think enriches the text.

I feel like a total nerd for continuing to go on about this textbook, but really, having such a bad textbook in my other classes really made me appreciate this one. Furthermore, I did almost no leisure reading the past six months, and I need some kind of review to show for my last six months of life.

[Allison]

From someone who really detests math, this was an incredible book. The authors are, dare I say it, funny. I learned a lot from this book, it was easy to read, and the examples were current and well worked. I would definitely recommend this book for a stats class - and if you are required to have this book for a class, read it, it helps tremendously.

[Jessica]

For a text book (and a math text book at that...), this is a really funny book. Certainly a great way to learn Stats.

[Dr.]

Bring on the pain.

[McKay]

Well how do I say this?...the book was actually really a great teaching tool and my professor was great, but the content stunk! I really struggled with this course and am thrilled that it is over!

[Sarah]

Wish me luck!

[Sylvain Bérubé]

Je rêve de produire un livre de statistiques similaire à celui-ci, mais en français et sous licence Creative Commons (ou équivalent).

[Nawasandi]

Cornell Alumni's book

[Katie]

scintillating....