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intereact!David S. Moore, George P. McCabe
Edition: 4 Har/Cdr
ISBN: 0716796570
ISBN-13: 9780716796572
Publication Date: 2002-07-19
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 828
Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5
1) another well-written and popular text by David Moore [Rating: 5 out of 5]
David Moore is a Professor of Statistics at Purdue University. He is both a great teacjer and a scholar. In addition to one or two well-written advanced books he has written a number of high quality introductory statistics books and has led the movement toward AP statistics in the high schools and active learning methods for tesching statistics at the elementary, middle and high school levels as well as at the universities.This book is a new edition of his highly successful introductory text. This is only slightly more advanced than the text "The Basic Practice of Statistics" also written by Moore. This edition can only be as good or better than the one U have read. The inclusion of a CD for use in the course can only be a significant edition to this applied text.2) Clear as mud [Rating: 3 out of 5]
I'll grant you that this is my first time in any kind of statistics class so perhaps my complaint should be leveled more at statistics in general rather than at this particular book. My complaint, specifically, is that the way this book presents statistics and explanations is so sparse and inadequate as to be nearly useless. It has plentiful exercises--which I like (because, as other reviews have said, repetition is the only way to learn a new language or skill)--but it's woefully inadequate in how it goes about conveying the foreign concepts of statistics to a newcomer. It expects a student (me, in this case) to understand all the complexities of a concept after having read the paragraph or two of explanation given in the textbook. Consequently, all the wonderful examples are useless because the book doesn't grant the comprehension to do the exercises. I've already bought one more statistics textbook to supplement this one (which is, unfortunately, used in my stats class) and will probably be buying another one. I'm desperate for a decent stats textbook because this one isn't remotely decent. Get it for many examples to work (though I don't understand why a text book would provide exercises without providing a key for said exercises), but not for learning the concepts. This book provides the key to HALF the exercises...why?3) Great book, great condition [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This book was delivered when I expected it, is in good shape and is easy to understand and follow4) introduction to the practice of statistics [Rating: 5 out of 5]
the book was in excellent condition, and it arrived on time.5) A great choice for a high school (AP) statistics course [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I am a teacher of AP Statistics (since its inception in 1997) with a master's degree in statistics. I agree with many of the previous reviews that this is NOT a mathematical statistics textbook. If you need a textbook that goes through the mathematics, especially the theory, behind the statistics then you need to look at another textbook. This book was designed for a statistics course for non-mathematicians (especially students with no Calculus background), which is why it is not terse and it has lots of repetitive problems. I have used four different textbooks for AP Statistics as a teacher and this is the only one I have ever used that got consistent rave reviews from my students. For a high school student with only Algebra II or pre-Calculus as a background, this is a very readable and easy to follow textbook, as opposed to other AP Stat textbooks which incorporate too much of the theory for this level of student. Many of my students have told me that this was the only math textbook that they have ever been able to read, and understand, on their own.