Modern Elementary Statistics, 11th Edition [Hardcover]

John E. Freund (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 27, 2003 | ISBN-10: 0130467170 | ISBN-13: 978-0130467171 | Edition: 11

Updated to reflect the latest technological advances in statistical tools, this solid text presents ideas and concepts more clearly for students who have little or no background in statistics. The Tenth Edition retains all the elements and style that educators nationwide have come to expect—clear prose, excellent problems and precise presentation of mathematics involved—while eliminating some of the computational drudgery. The seamless integration of technology gives professors multiple teaching options. The volume outlines all aspects of summarizing data, possibilities and probabilities, rules of probability, expectations and decisions, distribution, sampling, problems of estimation, tests of hypotheses, analysis of variance, regression, correlation and nonparametric tests. For Statistics professionals and others using elementary statistics.

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This solid text has been revised to present ideas and concepts more clearly for students who have little or no background in statistics. The Ninth Edition retains all of the elements and style that educators nationwide have come to expect--clear prose, excellent problems and precise presentation of the mathematics involved--while eliminating some of the computational drudgery. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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FEATURES:

• The text uses many of the different technological packages available in statistics, such as MINITAB.
• The book features display screens of the TI-83 graphing calculator.
• Many of the exercises deal with real or realistic data.
• The tenth edition has cumulative review exercises for sets of related Chapters 1-4, 5-7, 8-10, 11-14 and 15-18.
• Cross-referencing within the text has been simplified greatly by numbering the examples throughout each chapter.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 546 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 11 edition (February 27, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130467170
• ISBN-13: 978-0130467171
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,066,575 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for beginners, April 17, 2003

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"bijucu" (freeville, ny United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Modern Elementary Statistics (Hardcover)

I used this book to study for the Excelsior College's Introductory Statistics exam (college credit by examination, former Regents'), and got the maximum. I had the 9th (revised) edition, published in 1997.

Only knowledge of elementary algebra is required; no calculus whatsoever is needed here.

The book contains 17 chapters; for this exam I only needed about 13. Broad outline of content: summarizing data, probabilities and possibilities, expectations and decisions, probability distributions, normal distribution, sampling distributions, inferences about means/standard deviations/proportions, analysis of variance, regression, correlation, nonparametric tests.

I very much appreciated the way that the content was organized: easy to read, very structured, with clear and detailed examples. At the end of each chapter or minichapter - questions and problems.

Totally unnecessary, and outdated, are the computer generated examples that pop out now and then throughout the book.

In conclusion, highly recommended.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book for Introductory Statistics Classes, May 9, 2000

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Michael Kumpf (Acworth, Georgia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Modern Elementary Statistics (Hardcover)

This is a great book for anyone interested in Statistics without any Calculus knowledge. The authors explain everything well and there are plenty of exercises for each chapter. Each chapter has plenty of examples as well. I found the treatment of conditional probablity to be extremely well written. If you are taking a class in Stats or are interested in the subject run do not walk to get this book

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent introductory text, May 18, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Modern Elementary Statistics (Hardcover)

One of the clearest introductory textbooks on probability & statistics. It compares well with Freedman & Purvis's "Statistics" in clarity of presentation. In one respect Freund improves on Freedman by not being afraid to show students the actual formulas to use for solving problems. (Another good intro is Russell Langley's "Practical Statistics".)