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intereact!Richard D. De Veaux, Paul F. Velleman, David E. Bock
Edition: 2
Retail Price (not our price): $133.33
ISBN: 0321286715
ISBN-13: 9780321286710
Publication Date: 2005-03-14
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 768
Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5
1) Problems with ActivStats CD [Rating: 2 out of 5]
I bought three brand new books with CDs from Amazon.com. The first CD was blank. The second CD was chipped and embedded in the book binding. The third CD was also blank. I mailed the books/CDs back to Amazon the same day so I know I wasn't sent the same blank CD. I gave up on Amazon and ordered the book through Barnes and Noble and picked it up today. The CD in this fourth book is also blank. I plan on returning it tomorrow. I have ordered a fifth book from Borders. There is an issue with the CDs in this edition. All the books I ordered are brand new. The book is great! The CD is the problem.2) An authoritative book written by master teachers [Rating: 5 out of 5]
As a long-time professor of statistics with experience teaching introductory statistics to hundreds of students over many years, using many textbooks, I want to go on record that this is a wonderful book. The authors are hugely prepared, both as far as the statistical concepts and methods are concerned, but also with respect to instruction. They have learned what to do, and what not to do; they have made difficult concepts as simple as is they can (remembering Einstein's great principle: every explanation should be as simple as possible, but not simpler). All the key concepts and methods that really need to be covered are here, and the book is tied to the real world by repeated references to meaningful applied problems. For years I despaired that I would never find a book that had the great qualities I wanted to see in a book that introduces statistics, but this book comes as close as any I have seen. You won't go wrong using this book to learn statistics, nor to teach it!3) intro Stats [Rating: 4 out of 5]
For a statistics text book, much less any text book, this one is an easy read. The CD-ROM that allows you to have interaction with the information is also helpful; however, it is difficult to always get help from the chapter info to answer the practice problems.4) A good honest book about statistics [Rating: 5 out of 5]
First.. when I thought of taking stats.. I thought of boredom, bunch of boring data to processbut this book is not at all that. It s approach and explanation is pretty understandable & user friendly to use. After reading I began to know how to understand and process data/statistic.The problems for each chapter is not a lot! which I like. But there are reasonable amount of practice problems at least 30# per chapter, which I think is sensible and realistic for college students.5) DO NOT BUY THE SOLUTION MANUAL! It's a TRICK!! [Rating: 1 out of 5]
I am taking a course using "Active Stats" ISBN 0-321-28671-5 as the textbook. The textbook includes an appendix with solutions for the odd numbered homework problems only, but I wanted all of the solutions to help doublecheck my work as I went. This manual is advertised (by name and ISBN number) on the back "Active Stats" as the companion "Student Solutions Manual", so I ordered it. When I received it I was shocked to discover that all this Manual contains are the odd numbered solutions - which, as I mentioned above, are already in the textbook as Appendix B!!! I am writing a letter of complaint to Addison Wesley. The company should be ashamed for publishing the SAME EXACT material that appears as Appendix B Pps A-4 through A-43 in the textbook as a supplementary text- and for advertising it as such on the back of the textbook! Shame on Addison Wesley!!!