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Practical Business Statistics with Student CD-ROM

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I had the privelege of taking an MBA level course from Andy Siegel. The style of the text reflects the simply, user-friendly way he communicates in class. Not having taken a stats class before, I was happy to find a professor who could take a dry, complex subject and make it interesting and relatively painless. More professors should use this text!

Prof. Siegel's book is a great introductory text for business graduates with little prior exposure to statistics. The text covers many of the basic topics in statistics and ties them nicely to real world cases and problems.

The book starts with a description of the basic constructs of statistics - data sets, distributions, and variability. IT follows with an introduction to probability and covers random variables. The text continues to cover statistical inference, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing. Finally the book gets to regression and time series analysis and demonstrates several applications of the techniques covered.

The book comes with a CD that contains lecture presentations (very useful), all the data sets in the books (saves you typing), and an excel add-on called StatPad that provides many useful statistical tools.

Overall I think that this text is a good choice for MBA students and business professionals with little background in statistics. It is very user-friendly and is well grounded in business.

I don't have a great extensive experience in reviewing Statistics books, except to say, I usually found all of them confusing (more like me being so). But this book comes across as very well explained and simple to understand.
Would recommend this!
Along with "The Lady Tasting Tea" for a thorough understanding for the history and theory behind stats, wonderfully explained!

The book is a fantastic supplement to any statistics class - I highly recommend buying the solutions manual ebook to help you get through more of the practice problems at the end of the chapter. Working through the database exercises expanded this financial analyst's knowledge of Excel as well!

The book is great and definitely saved money buying used. However, my book is missing the student CD-ROM which I need for class. That was disappointing.

It's a very good book because of the way it divulges you into the real world. If you are interested in learning business and business statistics, what better place to learn it than the real world.

This book does a great job of teaching you how to do statistical computations using StatPad and MS Excel. But, it is not very good at describing fundamentals. It left students in my MBA program who haven't takin' stats for a long time lost. I understand it is generally used by business schools, particularly MBAs.

One thing this book has over any stats book that I've used is: a friggin' TON of practice questions. It will boggle your mind and, if you do them, you'll know stats like the back of your hand.

Overall, a very basic and easy to follow introduction to statistics. I'm a wildlife sciences major and while the focus of the book is VERY different, the concepts still apply. A very easy introduction into statistics and the excel-based exercises are helpful.

This is not the best book on the subject. There are many other superior books to this one. I still keep it around as a descent reference on statistics, and occasionally get something out of it.