I use this book as the main text book for the first half of a class in statistics and research methods for students from a wide variety of social science and humanities backgrounds, with little formal statistics or mathematics background. I surveyed my students with 5 questions about the book, with responses on a Likert scale (1=strongly disagree, 3=neutral, 5=strongly aggree. 17 students responded, which is a small enough...
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This book was a lifesaver on a graduate research project I was working on. I learned a lot about statistics, Microsoft Excel, and how they both work together. (My boss thinks that I am smart now)
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As a statistics instructor, I found the book and software very helpful. To extract the software is a bit tricky - you need to read pages 8-10 and 76-77 to get the disk installed. Once installed, the Stat Plus Add-In adds extra tools, including a box plot and normal probability plot, that standard Excel does not have. My students use the software in a computer lab.
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I use the book for an applied statistics course in the Economics Department at Emory University. Students find the worked examples very easy to follow and the Excel add-ins very easy to use. This text is a great resource for an instructor.
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Of all the stats books I've had in school, this was the clearest and easiest to understand. Everything is explained in clear simple english. The only drawback was that there was only one recommendation in the regression section on how to improve your linear fit. This could have been expanded, otherwise it was great. I was already an Excel fan, but now I can get rid of my S-Plus and Arc programs.
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