Statistics, 4th Edition 4th Edition

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Renowned for its clear prose and no-nonsense emphasis on core concepts, Statistics covers fundamentals using real examples to illustrate the techniques.

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David Freedman received his B.Sc. from McGill and his Ph.D. from Princeton. He has worked as a consultant for the City of San Francisco, the County of Los Angeles, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. Department of Justice. He has written several previous books and numerous technical papers. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 4th edition (February 13, 2007)
Language: English
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Skubalon12

This is a good introductory text on Statistics to teach anyone the subject ...

November 9, 2017

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This is a good introductory text on Statistics to teach anyone the subject from the very ground up. I rented this as a study tool to assist me in my occupation as a data analyst in the finance industry. Reading two chapters a week, I was able to get through the entire text during the "semester" period that Amazon rents it. After only a few chapters I found myself using the concepts in my work building models to analyze operations data. That being said, the book covers the basics of statistical thought beginning with box models and normal distributions, standard deviation and error. Most importantly as a introductory stats text, it is very readable with great examples and practice questions throughout. It may feel a little dated at points, but this won't hinder your learning at all.

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George

Great book for learning Statistics

October 31, 2016

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This is a very good introductory statistics book. The way the authors present the material in a clear, concise, and sometimes even fun (there are some jokes in the book) is refreshing. They also try to explain the concepts to foster understanding instead of just presenting equations and formulas, which is a definite plus. This book is a classic and a great way to start learning about statistics.

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Mark Lee

Superlative, Witty, Literate Introductory Statistics Text

April 16, 2011

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I'm not a "math person," and was compelled to take an Introductory Statistics course as the final math class toward my BA. I approached the course with preconceptions after hearing horror stories from other humanities folks about failure, shipwreck, plagues of locusts, and thoughts of suicide.

This is one of the top half-dozen texts of my entire college career.

Not only do the authors make statistics accessible and even fun, they do so in a consistently smart style that simultaneously simplifies statistical concepts while not pandering in the quality of language overall, or occasions for clever asides. While many professors will end up using modern calculators for the problems, the text bases its lessons on the use of tables (normal, t, and chi-square). I found myself following both the professor and, electively, the text for a more full understanding of "old school" methods. Each chapter has enough embedded problems (with answers at the end of the text) that the reviews and other materials provided by my professor were often redundant. I wish I had access to the answers for each chapter review questions, but that can hardly be a criticism in my "student" copy of the text.

I'll be revisiting this book long after I've ceased being a student. It has helped me have more informed attitudes about statistical products in general, which I suppose was a point of the course and the text.

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Hui Wei

The quality of the book is great! But for the content

March 20, 2018

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The quality of the book is great! But for the content, if you are a beginner for statistics topics, this is the book for you, since there are few mathematical formulas and there are a lot of vivid examples and pictures, which will make you interested in statistics. However, if you want to get deeper insight into statistics, this book is too easy. Recommend "Introduction to Mathematical Statistics" by Hogg. That book is a excellent book to those who want to do something about machine learning, data science.

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April 19, 2018

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I got this book to review concepts I learned in my statistics class before I take a research class. My mistake 🙄. This book is very convoluted and is not clear. The book doesn't follow a specific order and jumps all over the place. I'm like...What?!. I ended up youtubing Professor Leonard on YouTube. He is much clearer and much easier to understand. But I suppose for someone who's interested in advanced statistics, this book might be good for them..🤷‍♂️

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B. Jacobs

Nonstandard usage of the term “standard error”

May 15, 2011

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I’ve taught from this book for over 20 years, and I really love it, in spite of its flaws.

First, to address the flaws. Many critical reviewers seem to bemoan the lack of formulas and mathematical notation in this book, but I haven’t found this to be a problem at all. If you want this to be a part of your course, simply type up a formula sheet with the formulas in both English and mathematical symbolism, and — voila! — problem solved. As long as I also do problems on the board and on the test and quiz keys using both English and symbols, my students have not found this to be an issue at all.

A much more serious problem is the non-standard usage of the term “standard error.” In most textbooks, SDs (standard deviations) are for formulas using the parameter σ (or p), and SEs (standard errors) are for formulas using the statistic s (or ˆp ). This is the dominant convention.

However, in the Freedman book, SDs are for lists of numbers, and SEs are for random variables. (He even has an illustration underlining this point on p. 291). Although I do see pedagogical value in this non-standard convention (it makes the students mindful of whether they’re dealing with a list of numbers, or with a chance process) I have to agree with the critics that this could be very confusing to students who go on to more advanced courses. I deal with this issue by making it clear to the students that this usage is non-standard.

The reason that I love this book — in spite of it’s flaws — is two-fold. First the quality of the problem-sets is at a deeper level than is typical in most introductory statistics books. Secondly, I love the wonderful use of box-models to derive all of the statistical techniques. It’s akin to teaching students how to solve quadratic equations by completing the square; when they finally do learn the quadratic formula, they understand immediately where the formula came from. It’s just a formalization of what they’ve already been doing.

In so many statistics books, it’s just one big mess of magical formulas that the students need to learn to use, but why they work and where they come from remains a mystery. Moses might have brought them down from the top of Mt. Sinai, for all they know. (Yes, yes, I know that you can derive them on the board in class, but — let’s face it — it will mostly go in one ear and out the other.) The Freedman book promotes understanding at a deeper level. Indeed, by using box models, a talented student can derive the formulas for herself.

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