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Statistics: A First Course with Data CD-Rom

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This book made statistics easier and less esoteric.

This book is organized into 13 chapters and is a little expensive.

Contains a lot of charts, figures, graphs, diagrams and some pretty pictures too(some of them seem to be out of place).

Salient features -
1) Excellent coverage of sampling & Estimation, and more importantly Hypothesis testing(very comprehensive).
2) Several solved problems.
3) Several exercises/problems for you to solve/learn from.
4) Many typos/printing mistakes/goof-ups.
5) Very detailed in approach.
6) Funny.

Realy a HEAVY first course in statistics.

Book spends too much time on the "whys" and trying to be witty versus just tying to be a good text book. But the material is fairly easy to understand and numerous examples and exercises help you ensure you understand the material. And the CD provides the data in three formats to enable you to work the problems without data conversion or worse -- hand typing all the data in yourself. Overall I am very happy with this text book.

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excellent; saved over $30.00, material shipped is in excellent condition. received material within 10 days of order. thanks.

I took a Statistics couse with one of the authors (Smidt), and this was the reference book (for 500 level). It was a MINITAB course instead a really statistical course.