Seeing Statistics [Paperback]

Gary H. McClelland (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 27, 1999

SeeinSEEING STATISTICS is an online product which addresses the differing learning styles of today's students. It presents the dynamic, visual nature of statistical concepts using interactive and engaging methods based on years of cognitive research and experience. SEEING STATISTICS uses over 150 Java Applets to create an intuitive learning environment and is surrounded by relevant links to examples, exercises, definitions, and search/navigation capabilities. A handbook accompanies SEEING STATISTICS which contains a password, navigation and exercises.

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"This is the way the world is moving. The author has made excellent use of the available technology to accomplish a well throught-out goal."

"This is the first really creative application I have seen of Internet-type technology for actually teaching statistics. Statistical software will do computation, replacing the need to do arithmetic and algebra, but does not teach the concepts. This stuff does."

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Duxbury Press; 1 edition (August 27, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 053437090X
• ISBN-13: 978-0534370909
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,099,183 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Skip this absolute rip-off, October 7, 2003

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Mark Frost "Economist & Philosopher" (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seeing Statistics (Paperback)

This is perhaps the most overpriced book in history. Your $40+ buys you nothing. The "handbook" is near worthless, and the "online" password that it comes with isn't even necessary. Just go to seeingstatistics dot com and you'll see for yourself that purchasing this book adds no value. Beyond that the website is incomplete and quite sparse.
Don't get burned, skip this one.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent secondary resource for the UK, February 1, 2001

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tim dawson (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Seeing Statistics (Paperback)

It's good to see a subject which so benefits from advances in technology getting such excellent treatment. The interaction is simple to use and works well in front of a class on a smart board or on individual machines.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the way to understand statistics., March 30, 2000

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Rob Hamm (University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Seeing Statistics (Paperback)

This approach is exactly right, for it gives the learner the ability to play with the concepts. Statistics has traditionally forced people to grapple with the unusual vocabulary (greek letters etc.) and connect them with the ideas, which one had to "animate" in one's mind. Active engagement depended on constructing graphs in private so you could finally get what was being talked about. In contrast, the interactive graphic illustrations in this electronic book let you see the concepts and how they work by changing them with your own hands. This increases your feeling of engagement, and speeds up your understanding of the concepts.