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Applied Regression Analysis: A Second Course in Business and Economic Statistics (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac) (Duxbury Applied Series)

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excellent book: This is a successful attempt to make the complicated statistics much easier to grasp and use. includes output from various softwares like MINITAB, EXCEL, SAS...

only cautions are:
1. Doesn't go into Mathematically details involved.
2. One should consider that the title reads "a second course...".

For my class, the professor assigned Kleinbaum et al's textbook rather than this one. As I mentioned in my review for that book, it was so confusing and poorly organized. Luckily, I found this book in the library and used it instead and ended up a lot less confused in class than my classmates who were trying to understand the Kleinbaum book. Dielman's book is very well organized and laid out. It doesn't have colorful bells and whistles since it's a fairly upper level book, but it does have a very user-friendly layout. Furthermore, the formulas are never presented without an accompanying explanation in plain English and examples of how and when to use them. Another thing I really like about this book is that it gives thorough directions on how to do a lot of the analyses on some common statistical packages. Many of the instructions are accompanied by screenshots. They're at the end of each chapter rather than interspersed in the text, which makes them easy to find. This is actually becoming a great SAS manual for me.

For anyone struggling with the Kleinbaum book, or for any instructor considering using the Kleinbaum book, I would highly recommend this one instead.

I have bought Dr. Dielman's Applied Regression 4e textbook in Taiwan) for preparing my MBA thesis regarding the interaction effects. Given the widespread use of commercially available packages, this book provided considerately coverage on ALL computer packages about the field of regression work.

Dr. Dielman was a professor of mine. The book is well organized and useful for all people on all levels.

The book is in good condition. It's just that I didn't see any CD-ROM while in the description it says "with CD-ROM...). That's ok, anyway.

the product came in as expected.. took no more than a week to arrive. happy with the order.

The book was okay but I paid extra for expedited delivery and could have saved my money since it got here late.