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Product Description
The Sixth Edition of Neil J. Salkind’s best selling Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics promises to ease student anxiety around an often intimidating subject with a humorous, personable, and informative approach. Salkind guides students through various statistical procedures, beginning with descriptive statistics, correlation, and graphical representation of data, and ending with inferential techniques and analysis of variance. New to this edition is an introduction to working with large data sets.ÂTop Reviews
I DO hate stats, but this book actually is making my ...by G (5 out of 5 stars)
October 29, 2017
I DO hate stats, but this book actually is making my statistics class bearable. I'm not numerically inclined AT ALL and was terrified I wouldn't be able to get the concepts down enough for my major, but it's proven to be a good companion to my professor's lectures. I got the kindle version and I'm quite happy with it.
Great explanations, Kindle version full of typos
by J (3 out of 5 stars)
June 13, 2019
The explanations and examples in this book definitely helped me understand the concepts better. However, the Kindle version (at least) is full of typos that sometimes make the book difficult to follow. For example, when explaining an equation, the symbol for X-bar simply doesn't show up. It is in the equation but just a blank in the explanation, leading to helpful statements like "
Another example of confusing typos is the guidelines for effect size on page 206, which says: "A small effect size ranges from 0 to 2. A medium effect size ranges from 2 to 5. A large effect size is any value above 5." The example that goes with this section gives a Cohen's d value of 0.4, which the book then uses the guidelines to classify as a medium size effect. I had to consult other sources to determine that the guideline values were missing decimal points.
I still found the book incredibly helpful. I don't know if these typos are in the print version of just in the kindle edition, but they definitely distracted from an otherwise great resource.
Had To Buy For Class
by linchetto (5 out of 5 stars)
August 31, 2017
I can not say it will make anyone like statistics but it is better than the usual statistic textbook, for sure. It gives many other examples of why statistics are important, beyond the usual behavioral science explanations, which is cool, plus, the author totally gets that most taking statistics, are forced to take it, therefore caters to those that fit in that category and really attempts to make one"˜s statistics class, not suck, as much :)
This WILL help you understand Stats
by JAJ175 (5 out of 5 stars)
July 13, 2019
I was dreading my Educational Statistics course in my Master's program. This book is easy to read and has some great examples in it. There are "blue boxes" that point out misconceptions, give more information, and assisit in figuring out what everything means in general. There are detailed instructions on how to do the math by hand and in the SPSS software. This book has been great!
Great book for the statistically challenged
by WannaBook (4 out of 5 stars)
May 17, 2018
Great book for the statistically challenged. Emphasizes the how's and why's opposed to just assigning a bunch of numbers to crunch. The only negative comment I have is related to the lack of alternate technology explained. IBM's SPSS is the only technology for which solving the equations is given. SPSS works great, but is expensive and complicated to learn, and was not required for my class. Other technology is available such as graphing calculators and MS Excel. If the book covered their use as well, I would give it 10 stars(if possible).
Book falling apart
by Rock (2 out of 5 stars)
April 22, 2019
The material is great but this is the worst textbook I have ever rented from amazon. Half of the pages are falling out and the cover looks horrible. This is how the book arrived. If I wasn't desperate for a textbook before class started I would have returned and looked elsewhere. Amazon needs to screen their textbooks better because this book is falling apart. The content in the book helped me learn greatly but the quality of the book provided by amazon was terrible.
Digital images need improvement
by Cherann (2 out of 5 stars)
August 1, 2019
I bought the digital textbook. The book itself is actually pretty good and makes statistics easier to understand however...it is VERY difficult to read the formulas, formula break down and tables because they are images and cannot be magnified very well(see attached photos of inline text and the "magnified" formula image). If it weren't for that, I would probably give it 5 stars. Perhaps the Author should make the images available online or make it so that the image quality is better when it's magnified.
Witty, makes learning statistics fun.
by Amazon Customer (4 out of 5 stars)
July 28, 2018
Easy to read, loved the interactive videos, practice with SPSS, links to research. I would have given it 5 stars but some of the answer keys did not explain well enough. There were also several correction pages that needed to be accounted for-I didn't like that. However, the author, Neil Salkind seems like a person who would make a nice neighbor or friend-funny guy!
User-friendly Stats!
by Liz Hicks (5 out of 5 stars)
May 22, 2019
This book is laid out in an easy, understandable fashion. The examples are easy to follow. There are supplemental web resources linked in the book.
It's a great source for review - or if you're new to statistics!
If you have a stats class, or are in graduate school - this book is immensely helpful.
Disappointed
by Joseph Won (2 out of 5 stars)
March 27, 2019
I am currently learning stats from multiple sources so that I can pass a class for my masters program. I thought this book would be better from looking at the reviews but I have been pretty disappointed. Although it is nowhere nearly as dry as my textbook, I thought it was overly wordy with just an okay presentation of statistics. One of the other sources that I am learning from is Udacity which is free online material. I find Udacity is a much more concise and less time-consuming way to learn stats. I did buy the study companion to this book as well which I have not yet opened. Hopefully I will be able to use it after learning stats from other sources.
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