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The Basic Practice of Statistics, Third Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: David S. Moore
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
Category: Book
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Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 65013
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 3rd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 674
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.3
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 8 x 1.1
ISBN: 0716758814
Dewey Decimal Number: 519.5
EAN: 9780716758815
ASIN: 0716758814
Publication Date: June 4, 2003
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In "Basic Practice of Statistics", Moore brings the data analysis approach to the one-term course, with an accessible, fun style that helps students with limited mathematical backgrounds utilize the same tools, techniques and interpretive skills working statisticians rely on everyday. The third edition continues the tradition of Moore's convenient and user-friendly style through a reorganized format, review chapters at the end of each part, and new examples and exercises.
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 Good transaction September 19, 2008
Product arrived timely (at least I got my stuff before class started, many other people are still waiting for theirs!). Thank you.
 slow delivery August 9, 2008
I ordered this book over a month ago and still haven't received it... I start school in 2.5 weeks and I tried to contact the seller with no success...
 stat book for all disciplines February 13, 2008
25 out of 25 found this review helpful
This book provides an excellent formal introduction to statistics for undergraduates in all disciplines. It is the book I would teach out of for such a course. For specialty areas, I would choose a different text. Courses designed for engineers or health science majors should emphasize the techniques that are most commonly used in their discipline and the examples and applications in their discipline should be emphasized. With that said, there are still many introductory courses at universities that would be well served with this as the text.
I am reviewing the first edition published in 1995. Apparently a second edition has just recently been published. As Moore says in his introduction the text is written as "an introduction to statistics for students in two-year and four-year colleges and universities that emphasizes working with data and statistical ideas." He is true to his word. He follows the guidelines of the professional societies (ASA and MAA) which recommend emphasis on statistical thinking, more data and concepts,less theory and fewer recipes in teaching introductory statistics. They also emphasize active learning in the classroom. This book does all three but is more formal than his first book which presented and emphasized concepts very well but was not structured like a traditional course. Although the text can be used for active learning, it does not go all the way toward the currently popular approach of an activity-based course as has been initiated by Velleman and more recently by Moore himself in his activity based text "The Active Practice of Statistics."
Instructors of introductory statistics courses would be well advised to use one of Moore's text or the other text "Statistics" by Freedman et al.
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0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a disorganized, sloppy and ridiculous attempt to explain statistics in layman's terms.
I bought the study guide (much better) and have come to this conclusion. Most textbook writers should write a textbook then take out the exercises put them in the study guide and throw away the manuscript forever as not to add to the loathing that people have of mathematics.
Luckily, my instructor does not require that we turn in homework I simply do the exercises from the study guide skip reading the book and save my self a lot of time.
This means I practice the same problems over and over (a lot more effective than it sounds) and pass the tests easily since there is not really too much to this book other than a few formulas and definitions.
Wow.....just bad. June 20, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm an older, returning student and have seen my fair share of textbooks over the years. This is the first one that has been so bad that I feel the need to warn others. It is so bad that specifics are not even worth noting. If you are required to buy this book for a class, consider buying another to supplement it, get a tutor, or take Statistics at another school that doesn't require this book....seriously.
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