By leading with practical data analysis and graphics, Stats: Modeling the World gets students “doing statistics” and “thinking statistically” from the start. Students understand what we find in data, why we find it interesting, and how we report it to others as a sound foundation for the challenges of inference. Instructors praise Stats Modeling the World as clear and accessible to students, and students report that they enjoy reading the text while learning how to do Statistics with the Think, Show,and Tell rubric and What Can Go Wrong? sections.
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specially tailored for the AP,
By Caraculiambro (La Mancha and environs) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stats: Modeling the World (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)
If you are teaching AP Statistics to a competent high school group, this book was written for you. Literally. It was written with the AP exam in mind. The second edition has even been changed largely with a view to reflecting the recent minor changes in that exam.
So the authors' terminology, their practice exercises, their equations, and -- most importantly -- the range and depth they marshal correspond exactly to the level students must master to score well on the AP Statistics exam. Further, it has been very slickly brought off and is readable and entertaining. At least as much as possible, given that some tedium lies ahead for students who wish to land a 4 or 5 on said exam. It goes without saying that neither the explanations nor the example exercises summon the specters of integration or differentiation, but some of the end-of-chapter exercises can be easily ratcheted up to this level by an imaginative instructor. Some of the sidebar readings in some of the chapters, however, do anticipate mathematical statistics. But it's up to you how deeply you want to spell out the mathematical implications of these readings. Since this book contains many questions that aren't answered except in materials available only to instructors, I wouldn't recommend it for self-study. It would probably prove too frustrating. On that head, there are plenty and plenty of resources available for the instructor that chooses this book, such as the AP* Test Prep Workbook for Stats: Modeling the World, 2nd Edition and the highly useful Graphing Calculator Manual: Intro Stats: For the TI-83 Plus, TI-84 Plus, and TI-89.
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Makes concepts more complex than needed,
By Rufusreidwannabe (Orlando,Fla USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Stats: Modeling the World (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)
Book has good analogies and humor but it seems to make concepts which are quite easy in other books quite complex in this one. I used this book in a undergraduate stats class and found myself reading and rereading pages to try to extract usable information which would fall within the class study guide. The reason the instructor developed the study guide was because the book was too much fluff and explanation. If you are majoring in studies that are heavily math oriented then you may like this, but if your are majoring in Psychology, Education or Social Sciences there are books(with SPSS) which are much much clearer and quite easy. After taking several research courses I still found I did not need half of the information in this book.KISS principle(Keep It Simple Stupid)
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Decent book but Amazon description does not indicate the inclusion of ActivStats (which it does come with),
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This review is from: Stats: Modeling the World (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)
The book itself is good and relatively easy to understand. It is not a book that you can just learn statistics on your own with and it does help to have a teacher to guide you through but it is an easy read.
I purchased this book for a statistics course and also needed a software package called ActivStats. other book stores couple the two in a package but no where on this description did it say it included ActivStats. As a result, I purchased the software for $30 from Amazon as well. I received both of them and had two versions of ActivStats (it does come with this book) so had to send one back for barely a 1/3 refund because its software and because technically it was my mistake (even if Amazon did not mention the cd being included with the book).
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