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	• Statistics in Plain English, 2nd Edition Timothy C. Urdan Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Best statistics book I've read

What an easy book to read! It explains important statistical concepts clearly enough for anyone to grasp. A must read for any struggling statistic student or even students who want a better understanding of the material.

A well written book

I purchased this book to review stats for a course I'm taking in graduate school. The title says it all. This book is written in a very conversational way. As a result, the concepts are easy to understand. Unlike most text books, this book isn't trying to overwhelm you with information. The book simply explains the concept and it's usage, using some easy to understand examples. I highly recommend this book.

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good even for statisticians

This book is useful for those who use statistics while they donnot go deep into theory and advanced topics. It's got good interpretation for formulas and the main topics of statistics supported with nice examples. It's even good for Statistics undergraduate students who are victims of teachers who love theory without connection to the real life. This books aims to go through the main topics in statistics (non-advanced topics) and then it explains its formulas with nice interpretation and connection to the real life and with good examples as well. Although advanced topics like (logistic regression and many others) are not included, but it gives you a good basis for interpretation of what's going on in statistics.

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Finally!

I'm having to take statistics course for my Master's, and I was OK with our course textbook until we reached t tests. I was really stuck, and I must have read at least a dozen various sources trying to comprehend the topic, but it remained beyond my limited abilities. When I finally came across this book, it all clicked! And it even started looking rather simple! I'm totally impressed by author's ability to explain statistical concepts in simple, down-to-earth language. If you're struggling with statistics, but can't avoid it, I'm sure this book will be of great help.

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Getting the right book always matters, this is the right book

I sometimes wonder if I'm dumb or if books are poorly written. Well at least in statistics, I believe that it's the way textbooks are written. This book is extremely well-written. A few trivial typos here and there, but overall the guy has a knack for explaining the big picture. These days with computer-based stats packages, knowing how to calculate each value is great, but interpretation is what most of us will be doing. I feel much more confident about statistics after having read this book.

My critique is that it should have more thorough coverage b/c the guy is very good at teaching. Being a good teacher is much more important than being a genius. That's why these vaunted faculty are typically terrible teachers. You don't get a strangehold on genius and good teaching ability very often.

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Statistics in Plain English, 2/e provides a brief, simple overview of statistics to help readers gain a better understanding of how statistics work and how to interpret them correctly. It presents brief explanations of statistical concepts and techniques in simple, everyday language. Each self-contained chapter consists of three sections. The first describes the statistic, including how it is used and what information it provides. The second section reviews how it works, how to calculate the formula, the strengths and weaknesses of the technique, and the conditions needed for its use. The final section provides examples that use and interpret the statistic. A glossary of terms and symbols is also included.

New features in the second edition include:
* an interactive CD with PowerPoint presentations and problems for each chapter including an overview of the problem's solution;
* new chapters on basic research concepts including sampling, definitions of different types of variables,and basic research designs and one on nonparametric statistics;
* more graphs and more precise descriptions of each statistic; and
* a discussion of confidence intervals.

This brief paperback is an ideal supplement for statistics, research methods, courses that use statistics, or as a reference tool to refresh one's memory about key concepts. The actual research examples are from psychology, education, and other social and behavioral sciences.

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