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Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics

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This book is the best introductory to intermediate statistics textbook currently available.The authors do an excellent job of explaining how to go about doing statistics.The example problems are throughly worked out for the beginning student.All the steps needed to solve the various kinds of problems that a student will encounter in a statistics course are included.The notation used in the formulas is clear and straightforward.The treatment of p-values and multiple regression analysis is the best exposition to be found among current introductory/intermediate texts .I have taught 4-5,000 students statistics at the introductory,intermediate,and graduate level.I highly recommend this book for anyone taking an introductory to intermediate level course in statistics.

As an undergraduate and graduate statistics faculty, I have read and taught from many different statistics books (at least a dozen by a quick count). This book by Mason, et.al. is superior to all and far superior to many (including many texts used for graduate business statistics).

It is clearly written, well organized, and does not use up a lot of space with massive amounts of output from statistics packages that one will not use outside of the classroom.

I have recommended it many times to students as an alternate to the extant class textbook, for all of the graduate and undergraduate business statistics classes that I teach.

I have never been interested in reading a statistic textbook,simply because most of them are boring and totally confusing, but AIMR recommended this book as the official reading for year 1999.

When I have a copy of this book for my study, I was surprised. The book explains many statistic concepts in clear, plain English without many confusing terms. It describes the concepts step by steps, coupled with many interesting examples.

So far the best statistic textbook I've ever read. It is good for undergraduate, but I believe it is good for graduate students too.

Reading this Book helps anyone understand all Basic Statistics; this allows continue with more advanced textbooks. I recommend it to all, who need to start up with essential statistics and need a friendly, introductory but very efficient approach!

Positive aspects: Many examples for practice.

Negative aspects: Definition of terms are too complex and require further explanation. Most definition of terms refer to terms defined in previous chapters. This causes far too much searching and flipping through pages looking for previously defined terms. Guaranteed headache in 2.5 minutes.

Recommendation: Only read if you are a hard core statistician. I had to suffer through this book only because it was required reading for an undergraduate statistics class at the university I attend. My classmates and I have asked our instuctor to never use this book again for an undergraduate level class. Ten editions and they still can't get it right!

The 12th edition of this book contains a surprising number of errors. I am currently using this book for a statistics course in an MBA program. We are twelve chapters into the book now and in most every chapter I have found a mistake; more often than not there are multiple mistakes. What is worse is that the majority of the mistakes are in the practice problems which are where the student learns to apply the skills. This serves to create confusion and frustration on the student's part. Some of the mistakes are sloppy editing while others more significant are providing wrong information. The editors need to take another look at this book and the authors should also take note.

The paperback international edition is the best deal out there! It will save you a load of cash and is EXACTLY the same content wise as the hardback USA edition. As far as the quality of the textbook goes I'm not exactly a math minded person and this book seems to explain stuff fairly well or at least as good as Quantitative Methods can be explained.

I purchased the international version of this book ,which happens to be the same as the us one, from "Everything mobile" through Amazon and I am very satisfy with my purchase. the book is was it was said to be and I receive the cd as promised.In addition, the book arrive faster than expected. thanks soo much!!!

I have been using a few editions of this book in the last few years and I am going to use it again soon but the 12th edition had too many mistakes. Later I saw the corrections for the mistakes on the book's site but even the corrections had a few mistakes.

I used this text in my MBA stats class and have found it to be very informative and useful. I found the examples for Excel and Minitab to be well written and of great use. I would recommend this book for anyone who uses statistics on a frequent basis or simply would like a good reference manual in their library.