Fundamentals of Statistics

by Michael Sullivan III

Drawing on the author's extensive teaching experience and background in statistics and mathematics, this book is designed to promote reader success while maintaining the integrity of subject matter. The author's main goals are to generate and maintain reader interest, promote reader success and confidence, and provide extensive and effective opportunity for practice. Chapter topics include: Data Collection; Probability; Hypothesis Testing; The Binomial Probability Distributions; The Normal Probability Distribution; Confidence Intervals about a Single Parameter; and more. For those who are interested in learning statistics as it relates to their lives.

Genres: Textbooks, Reference, Nonfiction

606 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1900

About the author

Mike Sullivan III is a professor of mathematics at Joliet Junior College. He holds graduate degrees from DePaul University in both mathematics and economics. Mike is an author or co-author on more than 20 books, including a statistics book and a developmental mathematics series.

Son of Professor of Mathematics Michael Sullivan.

Reviews

[Briana Auclair]

Without a skilled teacher this book makes for better kindling than it does a reference to Elementary Statistics. As a first time statistics student, I found myself reading passages and coming up more confused than I went in. Thankfully my teacher bean teaching from another book, and giving us printouts that better explained the theories and why the formulas were constructed. If you are an instructor looking for an effective textbook for your class, keep moving. You'll spend more time correcting the books inept writings for your students clarification than actually teaching.

[Nostalgia Reader]

What a joke.

You'd better have an excellent teacher for a stat class that uses this book. Unfortunately, I didn't have a good teacher and can speak from experience: If you don't have an excellent instructor, you'll be drowning in functions and have no clear picture when to use what function. Didn't retain a thing, aside from some basic methodology.

[Thomas Dejewski]

This book was far more instructive than my professor, however through much due diligence, I managed an A. Good examples and the methods used to highlight definitions, key terms, and formulas was helpful.

[Cindi]

This was good. Though without the teacher I wouldn't have understood squat.

[Pamela Pickering]

DONE DONE DONE DONE (unless I flunked). Don't want to open this sucker again! Ahhh fiction, come find me and distract me from pdf and cdf functions! I await thee!

[Julia]

Read for a class.

[Christina]

I can't really say much for this book. We really just used it for homework problems.