Statistics: A First Course

by Donald H. Sanders and Robert K. Smidt

Book Overview

An introduction to statistics for beginners. This text uses over 2100 examples drawn from health care, business and economics, the social and physical sciences, engineering and education to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072295473
• ISBN13: 9780072295474
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
• Length: 664 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.7" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

really easy to understand

Book explain things in simple words, I highly recommended. Don't be afraid of statistics! Great book, I am using it for my statistics class for my CIS bachelors degree.

Good Course Book Though Wordy

Book spends too much time on the "whys" and trying to be witty versus just tying to be a good text book. But the material is fairly easy to understand and numerous examples and exercises help you ensure you understand the material. And the CD provides the data in three formats to enable you to work the problems without data conversion or worse -- hand typing all the data in yourself. Overall I am very happy with this text book.

Very Good

This book made statistics easier and less esoteric. This book is organized into 13 chapters and is a little expensive. Contains a lot of charts, figures, graphs, diagrams and some pretty pictures too(some of them seem to be out of place). Salient features - 1) Excellent coverage of sampling & Estimation, and more importantly Hypothesis testing(very comprehensive). 2) Several solved problems. 3) Several exercises/problems for you to solve/learn from. 4) Many typos/printing mistakes/goof-ups. 5) Very detailed in approach. 6) Funny. Realy a HEAVY first course in statistics.

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You don't need to be afraid of Statistics

This is a very friendly statistics book. It is easy to read and understand. The authors also throw in some humorous comments now and then that is something you wouldn't expect to find in a statistics book and this seemed to help with the reading. Many real world business examples are used in the book. The example problems and the end of section or chapter problems are from different areas of study such as business, political, social sciences, and science. This is great for understanding how to apply statistics in real life. I would have to say that all the topics and formulas are explained very well. In some cases there are more then one way to write a formula and Sanders and Smidt makes a point of giving you both formulas. You can decide which formula works for you. The book comes with a CD loaded with the data files for all the problems so you don't have to spend time keying in data. There are copies of the data files come in a variety of formats such as Minitab, Excel Windows, and Macintosh. For most of the example problems the book takes you through the steps using Minitab Statistical software and the TI-83 graphing calculator. You are not only learning statistics, but you are also learning how to use Minitab and the TI-83 graphing calculator. In this day and age if you are going to do statistics you need to be able to do it with a computer. I wish they would have also included examples using Microsoft Excel, which more people are apt to have then Minitab. Personally I use both Minitab and Excel. I actually enjoyed reading this book and looked forward to studying. Even though my statistics class is over this book will not be collecting dust for a while as I plan on going back through it to reread or finish reading what I missed or skimmed over. There are still a lot of the problems that I want to do to reinforce what I have already learned. This is a great statistics book to keep as a reference. More then once I have found coworkers looking up stuff in my book.