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Title: The Basic Practice of Statistics, Third Edition by David S. Moore, W H Freeman Publishers ISBN: 0-7167-5881-4 Publisher: W H Freeman & Co. Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $106.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.21 (14 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Fun but most students found it difficult to follow
Comment: At our college, we tried to use this textbook for a year, and at numerous requests by students and faculty, we have had to select another book for the upcomming year for general introductory statsitics courses. Most students found the layout of the book confusing, as it is very choppy. Instead of writing the formulas, supplimenting theory to explain them, and then giving examples, the author chops these sections and mixes them through out the book. Most students found the book hard to follow. Instructors almost always needed supplimentry material and found the book somewhat challenging to teach from. However, students found the examples to be fascinating and diverse, from measuring measuring glucose in cockroaches' "hindguts" to Mickey Mantel's batting average. Especially with the C.D., it is an excellent suppliment to any textbook to illistrate the real life applicability of statistics to non-mathematics majors, but not helpful in explaining concepts to students in of itself.
Rating: 5
Summary: excellent introductory text for all disiplines
Comment: 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.
Rating: 4
Summary: Jumps into things, but uses great examples
Comment: My instructor did a decent job explaining things that the book did not make clear. Quite often, the book went from basic to intermediate/advanced without any transition or guide. I've seen several other books with better explanations, but as far as statistical examples are concerned, it's excellent. If you're learning Statistics on your own, you may want to find an easier book to teach you the concept, then use this book to work out the example problems and advance your knowledge.
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Title: Study Guide for Moore's the Basic Practice of Statistics ISBN: 0716736179 Publisher: W H Freeman & Co. Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $31.25 |
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Title: Excel Manual for Moore's The Basic Practice of Statistics by Fred M. Hoppe ISBN: 071673611X Publisher: W H Freeman Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 |
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Title: Study Guide for Moore's the Basic Practice of Statistics by David S. Moore, William Notz, Rebecca L. Busam ISBN: 0716726823 Publisher: W H Freeman & Co. Pub. Date: December, 1997 List Price(USD): $29.25 |
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Title: Excel Manual for Moore and McCabe's Introduction to the Practice of Statistics: Revised Edition for Excel 97 (Windows)and Excel 98 (Macintosh) by Fred M. Hoppe, Moore ISBN: 0716740036 Publisher: W H Freeman & Co. Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.85 |
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Title: Using SPSS for the Windows and Macintosh: Analyzing and Understanding Data (3rd Edition) by Samuel B. Green, Neil J. Salkind ISBN: 0130990043 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 26 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $62.00 |
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